The Perfect G-Shock Square - GW-B5600BC-1BER 

The perfect G-shock is the square with solar and bluetooth but with a positive display. Its GW-B5600MG-1 but can't find one. They are "out-of-stock" everywhere.

I own both these square G-Shocks and love them both. A must for any Casio collector 👍🏼

Thank you for such a straight forward and detailed review

It certainly is a very nice, do it all watch. I received mine yesterday and I’m very happy with it. Great review, thanks. 👍🏻

The review was crisp and to the point...love this watch...would buy it post the lockdown in my country.....Cheers mate....

It's my timepiece. You know why.Thank you. Nice review.

A great review about a great watch!

Bought this a month back after watching this video. And I must say, the more I wear it, the more I like it. With a combi bracelet, this is a perfect G shock.

I'm rocking a 5610 and a 5600 AR. I had the 5610 for ages and for me it's the perfect beater watch. However it was looking tatty so I bought the AR and took the outer case and strap off and replaced the 5610 bits with it. On the AR I fitted a weathered black metal case and bracelet kit. 5610 also sports JaysnKays bullbars. Love these so much!

GWM5610BC comes with combi bracelet 2.0 and battery charge shows on screen vs the 5600 which only shows on bluetooth for those who prefer 5610 smaller size.

Looks like another purchase is in my future!!

Great review 👍👍

Very nice & informative video. I’m patiently awaiting the delivery of mine any day now.

I only own one Casio, the 5600BB, and I really like it. I find it easy to read in almost any light. This ‘Batman’ could be my next one 😎 Thanks a lot for the video!

I have the GW-B5600HR and i love it..

would be perfect if had POSITIVE display. Positive: perfect design, every function is useful, also alarms with snoozer, the Bluetooth also useful and the strap is THE BEST strap ever in any g=shock. The bad: the negative display. Thank you for your review!

I just bought one today. By sheer chance one of the shops in my area, had 3 on hand. The MSRP is 269.99 CAD, and they were selling their last 3 for 169.99 CAD a piece! Considering I was going to order the GW-M5610BC-1JF (Multi Band 6, Tough Solar, Combi bracelet) from Japan for around 300 CAD with shipping, this was too great of a deal to pass up, especially with the additional Bluetooth features. A lot of commenters and reviewers have their gripes about the negative LCD display, but it's not hard to get used to, and is not as bad they make it out to be. I find myself angling the screen with available ambient light, to get the best possible read of the display as if by second nature. The Auto Light function is incredible in itself, and having the option for the light to be on for 2s or 4s long, is great if you have a certain preference. A convenient ability of this timepiece is the FIND phone function, simple to use, and can bypass vibrate or silent settings on your phone. I agree with you on this, this might well be the best square face G-shock available.

love that 2nd watch that pure black

im rocking my gshock!

Solar and Bluetooth G’s are simply the best. That combi bracelet makes it look great 👍🏼

This might be my next watch since I was a teen in the mid 80s.

I have all three versions and I bought a used gen 2 combi bracelet for the blue edged one so all three are now on combis. Love gen 2 combi.

Love your videos

Got my Retro 90's IP GW-B5600 for $100 USD earlier this year. Love the colors! It's my most advanced square! I wanna jam this module into my Big King really badly 😂🤣🤣

This could be one heck of a buy if you'd like to experience that renowned casio's durability, sure they're better options out there now with fancy LCD, activity tracker and notifications display like the gbd200 or the gbx100 but this one does everything you need a watch to do and even more (I personally like the pinging func) plus they're not with the tough solar yet, hence making this a timeless watch with that vintage Casio display, which will only add up to its value years down the line. It's a great timepiece to own. Sadly it's not that easy to find atleast here in India!

Purchased both 5610 and 5600 after this video :)

1BER is definitely on my list, but I really want the stealth casio oak

now if only they made this one in a positive display

OK, you convinced me to buy one.

I’m buying this

Perfect watch and review 👍🏻 Batman is a cool and deserved nickname ! I call mine the PP my "Plastic Patek" cheers

They are a great every day watch, I've turned mine into a full metal square

I've had this combi bracelet and the one from the 5610bc and the 5610bc bracelet is way better. I didn't like the resin center links on the one you have so I parted it out. I find the gwb 5600 is the best G Shock going. ✌🏽

Dream watch actually. I think I'm a bit done with analogue steel watches, both automatic and quartz (except for dress watches possibly). Their movements seem to fail me consistently (4 times in 6 years until now), and I every now and then go hiking/skiing/tenting in cold environments, where you can actually truly noticably feel a steel watch draw the heat out of your hand when your body fights to stay warm. Even with decent layers of clothing over it. I think a G-Shock might be the way to go for me

I own this watch plus a Seiko SKX009 (Pepsi) and my "Dream" watch, My Breitling Navitimer that I've now owned for 14 years and IMHO is still the ultimate, However the watch that spends most time on my wrist is this one :-)

I bought a golden version for my father's anniversary and a blue version for myself,great Watches.

I just purchased the GWB5600BL-1 online yesterday before I saw this review. Can't wait to get it and check out the features. I still have one of the original gold case casios from the 1980's (or was it late 70's?) Not sure if it still works. A 5610 modded with a metal case and bracelet also resides in one of my watch cases.

Love all the added benefits to it like the bluetooth...think I still prefer the old DW5600 though!

Just brought one the strap is very comfortable for me, I was going to buy a vintage Omega or Rolex but I keep with G shock & Edifice.

Wow, I feel like I've been transported back to the 70s!

I've owned the GW-M5610-1BER with negative display for about 3 weeks now and only wore it a couple of times, looks great and fits well on the wrist but the negative display makes it hard to see the time

Just picked one up the cool blue one with rubber bands

Just picked one of these up from amazon warehouse for £65! Couldn't believe it! I feel that the buttons etc are better than the 5610 also but I love both

GW-B5600BC is perfect, that is, until you encounter GMW-B5000D. I have both, I have written an alternative FOSS tool to sync the time on them (and on OCW-T200S) and so on. When I bought the latter, I thought "well, I'll wear B5000D on special occasions and will keep the B5600BC most of the casual time" - hell no, now the B5000D is on my wrist 24/7. I guess if I ever can afford the MRG-B5000 of any variant, it will be the same situation... P.S. And yes, I had M5610 as well, dropped it completely after purchasing the B5600BC, as any BLE-enabled Casio watch makes M5610, that only relies on longwave sync, look like irreversibly outdated mess. Leave the longwaves to Citizens who can't do anything better anyway for similar size and price tags. If you don't want BLE, nothing beats good old DW-5600 of any design you like anyway. P.P.S. Also looking forward to GMB2100BD, but that's a *totally* different story...

The basic plastic band on a 50$ 5600 from Walmart lasted me 5 whole years and had one crack.

I was considering the 5610 about a month ago and recall watching your video. After getting distracted by other watches I became interested in, this video has been somewhat prophetic. Just this week I have seen the Blue 5600 on sale, at first on Amazon yesterday where I think it was about £60. Then today it popped up at H Samuel and I picked it up for just under £53. I reckon I picked up a bit of a bargain, even though it’s on the rubber strap rather than the combi one, I’m OK with that as I plan to swap it out for a NATO if that’s possible? If anyone has advice about how to do that please reply and let me know. Great review and I can’t wait to get the watch.

This does seem like a fairly functional watch. But I would say for a digital watch I would prefer a little more color. Great review 👍🏼

bought these watch about 6 months ago... I liked that there was tough-sollar function with 10 months of batery life "normal use without exposing to light after charge"... but now i regret it while the one i own, lasts abou 4 weeks of use on full charge ... yes it's true i were them 24/7 (surely not in dark only ;-) ) and maybe I'm using them excesively: (1 daily allarm, about 1 and 1/2 hour of stopwatch a day, timer about 35 times a day for about 1 and 1/2 minutes on average , no signal on, no auto light on, sound feedback muted, manual light set for 2 sec, recieving on, bluetooth about once a 3 day for batery check)... nevertheless it's prety short time... i don't know if it's normal by all watches from this reference or its reason for claim???

One big difference that nobody talks about is the difference in dimensions. M5160 is slimmer at 12.7 mm and B5600 is 13.4. height and width are a bit different too. I think the M5160 suits better for slim wrist. Do you feel major difference in regards of dimensions? I'm still on the fence if this would wear bulkier on my 6.5 inch wrist.

I want this watch but it's $200 now. Gonna wait til Black Friday

Love my GW-B5600-1BDR. One big disappointment is the radio tries, sometime I can get a L1, but it will not sync with WWVA out of Colorado. I have a much older G-Shock right next to it that syncs like a champ. I have tried every trick in the book, it’s simply a failure. Of course it is not needed all THAT much because I sync it to my iPhone. Yes at certain times it can be a bit more difficult to read, but normally I never have a total failure. With the light, it’s amazingly readable (and looks exceptionally gorgeous)... I’d even prefer 6 seconds to 4! Another annoyance is the ambient light is read before the auto-light activates, so sometimes the auto-light does not activate with a wrist turn. Even so, this watch simply must have a negative display given the overall design/color scheme.

I love the marking dw 5610 and multiband 6 is always more reliable than phone, and unreliable bluetooth, if I need phone connect watch I would go with the American Apple watch

Great review - May I ask, does it still get a signal from Anthorn regardless of the Bluetooth connection?

I think they need to further upgrade the module to make it more customisable, like the 7800 which they discontinued 😿

The negative displays are harder to read in the daylight than the regular positive displays.

Hello! Can you permanently activate the automatic light function to solve the visibility problem?

This video has been a life saver! I had all the same niggles with the 5610. My only further question is...does it have the same.dimensions as the 5600 or 5610? So one could swap the bezel and straps? Cheers.

I'll stick with my 5610 until Casio put out a GW B5600BC with a positive display.

The perfect g shock is the all metal GMWB5000 series!!

Nice review. Mate just a comment, I think you might have a wart on your left index finger.

This model is not available in India :(. Do you think they are going to release a refreshed version of this or casio is intentionally not selling it here :(

Would you say that the negative Display of the GW-B5600BC-1BER is more legible than of the GW-M5610-1BER (with negative Display)?

Does it give you notifications?

I ordered one, but the negative lcd sucks. I returned it.

The ER at the end just means the model you've got is made for the European market. It's not specific to the watch model itself. There's different codes for different markets around the world (four in total, I believe) the JF, or JR for limited editions, CR, DR and ER I believe are the others. Some people believe the japanese models are the best because that's where the watches are designed, but it most cases this can't really be proven. Anyways, if you're gonna suggest picking up this model, you don't need to include the ER at the end. It could be misleading to somebody from America or Australia who thinks the model designed for their market is the wrong model.

Since this video is 4 years old, is the Batman still the best version of this?

The 5610 is already perfect. I strongly prefer a positive display and I have no real use for Watch Bluetooth.

it looks more like a rectangle than a square

I've been considering either the stealth or the gold. I'm leaning gold because I had trouble reading a cheap negative display mudman I used to own. Are all negative display Gs equal or is it possible this one is better?

The negative display is quite often pretty hard to read.

Are the dimensions the same as a normal 5600? I have bullbars for a basic one and would like to put them on this

I prefer the original.. Just looks way better... But I love the combi bracelet

What is difference between GW-B5600BC-1BDR and the GW-B5600BC-1BER?

If I can delete two words from the English language, they would be tactical and color way. Instead of this watch, I got the half metal square and added a combination bracelet to it. The bonus? It’s a positive display. I don’t understand why only two variations of this watch our positive displays, both of which are super hard to find and very expensive. Note the negative display Models are cheaper and easier to find. So, maybe it’s apparent that more people want the positive displays. Casio get a clue.

The battery only last for one(1) week. Should I have the battery changed ?

My favorite watch. Lol.

Simple question, is the negative display easy to read in all occasions, most occasions, some occasions, or hardly ever? I find it curious why Casio would release this display when so many people seem to complain about the legibility. Any thoughts?

I really wish Casio would stop making all their best models negative display only. I know this one has the positive display gold version but if you don't like gold I guess you have to settle or keep on looking.

You got that game of thrones jon snow accent

Are the white digits of this negative display visible in the dark without having to press the Illuminator button?

Cool review, but I think you got it wrong. The GW-M5610 is still the better watch imo.

These things are so addictive. 4 and counting

Where can you buy another strap thats identical?

This Bluetooth version is almost twice the price, however. You said you got it cheaper than your original square, the 5610 Multiband 6. However, you also mention that your watch came in the wrong box. So, you got charged for a completely different and cheaper watch.

Why they want to switch of the Atomic Signal?Can't find informations about this.

Is there a digital watch with negative display and orange data not white? Thanks.

Which one worth more ? That one ? Or the gmw b5000 ? I have the gwm5610 and the mudman g9300 but I’m not sure if to buy the gmw b5000 the silver one or not …I bought the mudman before with 3 month .. and I’m feeling bored .. I used the square one and I still love it ..

I have both and black dial never again.

I like it but if my phone got stolen.. what do i do keep time with the guy who stoled.. with the bluettoh.. i need something independent watch and phone i keep my 5610.

i cant find the yelow one nowhere! the blue one has not the same band! anyone found the yellow?

Negative displays just dont work for me , legibility at a glance is absolutely critical in owning a watch for me , granted I wear glasses but this does not impact legibility for me except in the case of negative display watches that require just that half second more to read and be confident of the time displyed has been read correctly .

Where can i buy the strap? Or does the new one come with it? Ive only found them with rubber straps

Wait it has gps built in it? Or does it need to be connected to your phone to record time and place? What if your not in Bluetooth range with your phone, will it still record it and show up on your phone when your back in range?

Negative display is a no go.

Can you change strap on it - want to have it for all occasions including sports and the chain strap doesn’t look Conducive for that

I have a 6.5 inch wrist. Will the GW-B5600BC-1BER fit?

The black paint wears off the clasp of the combi bracelet and ends up looking tacky. Casio needs to come up with a different finish. DLC perhaps.

My 5610 has had 0 battery changes or issues in the 6 years I;ve owned it

Hi, you say that the screen is not as legible as 5610. Are you talking about a negative screen as well ?

Can you put a combi bracelet on the metal square??