Casio G-Shock GMW-B 5000 D-1 Brings 'Full Metal' To The 5000-Series
In front of my tired eyes the words “instant get” started flashing like the dazzling billboards on the streets of Tokyo when I saw this news: the awesome-looking G-Shock 5000-Series, the daddy of all G-Shocks, is getting a full-metal case in steel with the?Casio G-Shock GMW-B 5000 D-1 and in IP gold with the?GMW-B 5000 TFG-9. They both also sport all the tech I’ve been missing from, say, this otherwise cool Mudmaster. Let’s take a quick glance at the details of these two new 5000-Series bad boys, accompanied by Casio’s traditionally, famously and consistently crappy, horrendously low-resolution official images-none of which, no matter how awfully bad, can turn me off of one of these.Steel, or any metal for that matter, is the least G-Shocky material I can think of and that is one of the two reasons that makes these two watches get on my “want” list. The first G-Shock, technically, was what you see right above: a plastic ball with a display in i
Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean GMT Deep Black Watch Review
Omega managed to exceed my expectations when I finally got my hands on the first ceramic-cased Planet Ocean which I’m reviewing here today. Debuted a few months after Baselworld 2016, the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean GMT “Deep Black” carves yet another niche within the brand’s larger line of high-end Seamaster Planet Ocean diving watches. Omega not only has plenty of dive watches to choose from (seriously, no shortage whatsoever), but the brand also has a number of GMT watches to choose from.I say all this to explain that while the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean GMT Deep Black doesn’t immediately satisfy an existing need, it does represent a desirable accumulation of a lot of things Omega has been tweaking for a while, and is arguably a current best-of-breed product within its relatively narrow niche. To really appreciate this watch, you need to ignore most of the marketing images Omega has of it (they make the colors look way too flat) and also forget what