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 Posted: Wed Jun 28th, 2006 07:48 pm
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obsidian



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 I'm no great lover of quartz either (the twitchy second hand drives me nuts), but G-Shocks are a whole other animal. You shouldn't try comparing them to nice automatics or mechanicals-- it's like apples and oranges. It helps if you don't think of them as watches, but rather as multi-function digital timers (that just happen to be strapped to your wrist). Then they are pretty cool. I mean, the best are solar powered, atomic clock syncronizing, have multiple alarms, count down timer, stop watch, lunar phases, tidal graph, temperature, etc. and can survive a 25 story drop! The classier ones are all metal with metal bands whose individual links are held not by pins but by small spring bars!
KenC wrote: obsidian wrote: A couple of weeks ago I won an auction for a lot of 4 G-Shocks-- instant G-Shock collection!
$92 shipped-- works out to $23 each!
Took a chance, since I couldn't be exactly sure which models they were from the pics, but it turns out these would easily sell for over $200 if sold seperately.

 

That's pretty cool...............everyone knows (I think) of my disdain for quartz watches, BUT, I'm thinking G-SHOCK could really change my mind...they seem really innovative!