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Once upon a time, watches were quite fragile. Accidentally knocking one off a table or encountering too much water could lead to irreparable damage. In the early 1980s, the team at...
Trust us when we say that Casio G-Shock is all about variety. It would be a full-time job to sort through the different G-Shock watches for men and women and categorise...
See the latest additions to the WatchPilot collection of G-Shock watches, including best-selling classic styles and functional sports watches.
G-Shock men’s watches are built for action. Browse our selection of men’s G-Shock watches for sport, climbing, water and international travel.
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Tough talk is all well and good, but a brand must deliver. Our best-selling G-Shock watches prove the Casio team is doing all the right things to live up to its “toughest watch of all time” promise.
Since 1983, G-Shock has focused on boundary-pushing watch production that uses solar power, GPS and shock resistance to give men and women something to brag about. Here’s a behind the scenes to demonstrate what the brand has to offer.
Some might say that G-Shock is just a collection under the Casio umbrella, but we see it as more of a standalone brand. Casio was founded in 1946 but the first G-Shock watch didn’t emerge until the early 1980s. Today, G-Shock has its own website, its own collections and its own identity but you will still find the name Casio on its cases and case backs.
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In the early 1980s, Casio engineer Kikuo Ibe was thinking about his late father’s broken pocket watch and dreamt of “creating a watch that never breaks”. He settled on the ‘Triple 10’ philosophy, which said a watch needed to be water-resistant to 10 bar, have a minimum 10-year battery life and survive a minimum of a 10 metre drop. By 1983, the debut G-Shock watch was unveiled, which achieved the ‘Triple 10’ and then some with remarkable shock resistance. It took more than 200 prototypes and two years of research and development, but the project excelled and changed the landscape for watches all over the world. Toughness was now achievable.
G-Shock watches are powered by quartz movements. Some have digital displays, some analogue displays, while others have a hybrid of the two. There are many G-Shock watches so separating them can be confusing. Most have a set of standard functions, like a stopwatch, countdown timer, backlight and water resistance, but others have Bluetooth connectivity, solar-powered GPS, a heart rate sensor and a thermometer. Our advice? Decide what you want from your G-Shock watch and how practically useful you need it to be. Here at WatchPilot, we break down the functionality for you to help you along the way.
