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Casio G-Shock Watch Headquarters Visit: 'Cool & Fun' Made In Japan
It was 1983 in Japan when Casio first released the now famous G-Shock watch collection. Its inventor, Mr. Kikuo Ibe developed the durability-themed watch quietly with an intent to end the frustration with what he and others felt was an industry of fragile timepieces. When it was first released, the modern-looking plastic watches were intended to appeal to active professionals such as police officers, construction workers, and emergency rescue personnel who needed timepieces that they didn't need to worry about. Over the last 30 or so years, the Casio G-Shock has indeed been extremely popular with these groups of consumers, but as a product its popularity went far beyond its existence as a useful tool worn on the wrist.A Quick History Of The Casio G-ShockThe brilliance of G-Shock wasn't apparent at the time when it was first released, as it was radically tech-themed and nerdy in a time when most Japanese business professionals still adhered to the classic dress watch look so deeply engr
Ulysse Nardin's Imperial Blue Watch With Flying Tourbillon And 4-Gong Sonnerie In Sapphire Hands-On
Since its establishment in 1846, and especially since its 1983 relaunch, Ulysse Nardin has taken its fair share of designing and manufacturing some of the most complicated chiming watches of modern horology. Their latest exercise in this extremely demanding field of high-end watchmaking is called the Imperial Blue, and it is yet another tangible and hugely impressive proof of that experience.?Comprising a flying, or rather a seemingly levitating tourbillon, a sonnerie Westminster carillon and minute repeater, as well as a date indication, when I first saw this piece the immediate question on my mind was where Ulysse Nardin put all these complications in a movement half of?which is completely transparent and contains nothing but the tourbillon, spinning in sapphire-surrounded loneliness?The reason why such liberality in using movement space shocked me is that the sonnerie complication of the Imperial Blue?represents the pinnacle of all chiming watches, meaning even greater complexity fr