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There is no doubt digital watch has upper hand when it comes to functionality. It is limitless, at least in theory. Despite that people who think about expensive watch gravitate towards analog options and chronographs with multiple sub dials to fit functionality. Clock work can be very complex and show you all the things in the celestial world. Edifice EQS-500 is modern middle ground between digital functionality and convince and analog time data delivery. As usual , long time ago there was Citizen… Citizen came out with analog watches filled with multiple digital functions: timer, alarms, chronograph. It was not really convenient at the time due to relative simplicity of the set up – you got one motor or two to move hands around and it took long time to actually set up something like alarm or return to current time. It was 5 minute affair, comparing to digital 1 minute. Analog digital combo had both worlds covert, yet failed out of grace. Most prominent Citizen watches enjoye...

  Casio DW6900MS G-Shocks started as utilitarian squares. Later on during late 90s decline Casio reinvented itself. Instead of slowing down and limiting models to very few in different guise it kept going. That is the most exciting thing in owning Casio: you wear timepiece made by the most innovative company. Some innovations came in form of same watch different color/special edition form. G-Shock was the ambassador of the brand. DW6900 became a poster child. Let see blackened DW6900MS as a watch and as a fashion thing. When Casio produced G-Shocks for a first 10-15 years with standard black/grey plastic, steel or titanium.   Later on Casio realized, G-Shock become more than a mere utilitarian watch, it become an icon . Fashionable, desired and adored. As such it should be more visible, more colorful and more personal . Limited edition from designers has been born as well as in house variations. Almost nothing changed inside, however outside pat of the wa...

To say 5600 series G-Shock is a classic design icon is to state very obvious thing. It roots in very first g-shock watch ever made and has all the 80-s heritage qualities. It is square. it is slim and it is comfortable and light.   GLX -5600 is a modern interpretation of this watch. GLX-5600 got new internals  and true to the roots design. How it wears? Let walk through it and then you can decide is it the watch for you. In the 80-s, digital watches were popular, cutting edge. They shared same technological wonder space as many Japanese imports:   next year it will be more exiting, more packed and will pass your imagination horizon. There are many wonderful examples from this era incorporating ultra thin build, amazing features (something you never saw before). G-Shock was same breed of never seen before watch. You can drop it form third floor on an asphalt and it will work. You can sink it and it will work. It will survive a lot. As an inspiration it had contempor...