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Casio Men's G5600A-9 G-Shock Yellow Shock-Resistant Digital Dial Watch

• Green digital dial
• Yellow resin strap
• Scratch-resistant mineral

Product Description

The Casio Story

With the launch of its first watch in November 1974, Casio entered the wristwatch market at a time when the watch industry had just discovered digital technology. As a company with cutting-edge electronic technology developed for pocket calculators, Casio entered this field confident that it could develop timepieces that would lead the market.

In developing its own wristwatches Casio began with the basic question, ""What is a wristwatch?"" Rather than simply making a digital version of the conventional mechanical watch, we thought that the ideal wristwatch should be something that shows all facets of time in a consistent way. Based on this, Casio was able to create a watch that displayed the precise time including the second, minute, hour, day, and month — not to mention a.m. or p.m., and the day of the week. It was the first watch in the world with a digital automatic calendar function that eliminated the need to reset the calendar due the variation in month length. Rather than using a conventional watch face and hands, a digital liquid crystal display was adopted to better show all the information. This culminated in the 1974 launch of the CASIOTRON, the world’s first digital watch with automatic calendar. The CASIOTRON won acclaim as a groundbreaking product that represented a complete departure from the conventional wristwatch.

Casio transformed the concept of the watch — from a mere timepiece to an information device for the wrist — and undertook product planning based on this innovative idea. We developed not only time functions such as global time zone watches, but also other radical new functions using Casio’s own digital technology, including calculator and dictionary functions, as well as a phonebook feature based on memory technology, and even a thermometer function using a built-in sensor. The memory-function watches became our DATA BANK product series, while the sensor watches developed into two unique Casio product lines of today: the Pathfinder series displaying altitude, atmospheric pressure, and compass readings.

In 1983, Casio launched the shock-resistant G-SHOCK watch. This product shattered the notion that a watch is a fragile piece of jewelry that needs to be handled with care, and was the result of Casio engineers taking on the challenge of creating the world’s toughest watch. Using a triple-protection design for the parts, module, and case, the G-SHOCK offered a radical new type of watch that was unaffected by strong impacts or shaking. Its practicality was immediately recognized, and its unique look, which embodied its functionality, became wildly popular, resulting in explosive sales in the early 1990s. The G-SHOCK soon adopted various new sensors, solar-powered radio-controlled technology (described below), and new materials for even better durability. By always employing the latest technology, and continuing to transcend conventional thinking about the watch, the G-SHOCK brand has become Casio’s flagship timepiece product.

Today, Casio is focusing its efforts on solar-powered radio-controlled watches: the built-in solar battery eliminates the nuisance of replacing batteries, and the radio-controlled function means users never have to reset the time. In particular, the radio-controlled function represents a revolution in time-keeping technology similar to the impact created when mechanical watches gave way to quartz technology. Through the further development of high radio-wave sensitivity, miniaturization, and improved energy efficiency, Casio continues to produce a whole range of radio-controlled models.

Product Description

This classic timepiece by Casio for men offers a green digital dial, quartz movement, and a stainless steel case. A yellow resin strap finishes the look. Finally, this beautiful timepiece is water resistant up to 660 feet, ensuring lasting quality for years to come.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002LYW25Y
• Item model number: G5600A-9
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,128 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic 80's time piece, August 17, 2010

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Beto van Beethoven "Beto" (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

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This watch brings great memories to me. I started Surfing in the 80's while I was in High school. Back then the only watch that could take such a pounding was the G-shock, and then one day I saw a Yellow G-shock, it was awesome, the regular ones, the black color ones you could find them everywhere, but not these babies...

The watch is an exact copy of the 80's model, funcions are the same, with the exception of the solar powered battery, this is a great addition, as it is not any watchmaker or watch store, that can appropriately reseale the watch once you need your battery replaced.

Features:

This watch functions with solar cells, it even has a Power Saving Function to help the watch operate longer.

Accuracy at normal temperature: +/-15 seconds a month.
Timekeeping: Hour, minutes, seconds, p.m. (P), month, day, day of the week
Time format: 12- hour and 24- hour
Calendar system: Full Auto calendar pre-programmed from the year 2000 to 2099
Other: Home city code (Can be assigned one of 48 city codes); Standard Time/ Daylight saving time (summer time)
World time: 48 cities (29 timezones)
Other: Daylight Saving Time/ Standard time
Alarms: 5 daily alarms (four one-time alarms; one snooze alarm); Hourly Time Signal
Stopwatch:
Measuring Unit: 1/100 second
Measuring Capacity: 23:59' 59.99"
Measuring Modes: Elapsed time, split time, two finishes
Countdown Timer:
Measuring Unit: 1 second
Input Range: 1 minute to 24 hours (1 -minute increments and 1 hour increments)
Illumination: EL (Electro-luminescent panel); Auto Light Switch

Other:
Button operation tone on/off

Power Supply:
Solar Cell and one rechargeable battery
Water Resistance:
20 BAR (20 Atmospheres). Do not use for SCUBA diving or other types of diving that requires tanks.

My only complain is that the watch is not made in Japan, is made in Thailand, yet the watch's quality so far has been excellent. It does feel a bit lighter than my previous G-shock though. I wouldn't mind paying a little extra for a Japanese quality watch but heck, you can't find them in this color anymore, if you want a Japanese one, I believe there is a black model available here at Amazon.

The buttons are a little hard to push, but the watch gets the job done. It's a tough watch. You can't go wrong with this one. I spend a lot of time at the water, swimming, surfing and S'up and like the old days, this G-shock can still take it. During my years as a Surfer I had close to 10 Free Style watches, they couldn't take the beating my ol' G-schock took.

Great service from the seller, the watch arrived earlier than expected with all its manuals and Casio Box.

See ya'in the water!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's an eye catcher, September 22, 2011

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Michael Mooney "MangoMike" (Tampa, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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I've had my YELLOW G-Shock for 6 months. I get positive random comments about it every week from complete strangers. No one has said they didn't like it. I'm not a fashionista. That's all I'm saying.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Performs as advertised, July 18, 2011

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Sparky (West Palm Beach, FL) - See all my reviews

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Purchased the G-shock after I broke the movement in my second automatic watch in 2 years. The solar powered battery holds a charge very well. Keeps good time. It's comfortable on the wrist. What more could you really ask for in a watch? Its no Rolex Milgauss, sure. It won't score you points with women, but it is 100% honest about what it is. A watch that will never need a battery as long as you own it, will keep close enough to perfect time to satisfy any normal person and won't break unless you pound it with a sledgehammer. It will serve you well, heartily recommended for anyone with an active lifestyle who is whimsical enough to be comfortable wearing a bright canary yellow watch.