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    WHY CASIO TOOK SO LONG TO CREATE THE ÜBER-COOL G-SHOCK FULL METAL 5000

    Oct 18, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS SUMIT NAG
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    SIDNEY TEO AND SUMIT NAG
    DIGITAL ARTIST
    CIWIE GOH

    You would have to have been living under some sort of horological rock to not be aware of how massively smitten the collective watch collecting community has become with Casio’s Full Metal 5000 series of G-Shock watches.

    Funny thing is, this isn’t the first time a G-Shock has been made in all-metal. The first all-metal — all-steel to be specific — G-Shock was announced back in 1996. In fact, that same year there was also an all-titanium G-Shock. These did great for Casio, but reason why the 2018 all-metal G-Shocks have been such a runaway success for the Japanese watchmaker, can squarely be attributed to the fact that

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