HecticArt
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You know.....smaller watches have smaller movements inside of them......
Pardon me, but do you have the time?
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IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Size doesn't matter.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
That's what she said.
HecticArt
Administrator
I wish I wouldda said that.
She's lying.That's what she said.
JHDK
Release Robin's Bra
I went a little Casio crazy. Got a Square and a Pro Trek:
And I have the girl getting me this for Christmas:
Another Square, but with a combi bracelet. I don't love bracelets but I think I will like the combi because it's not metal.
The light on the Pro Trek is really cool, and it has pretty great lume...something Casios aren't known for.
And I have the girl getting me this for Christmas:
Another Square, but with a combi bracelet. I don't love bracelets but I think I will like the combi because it's not metal.
The light on the Pro Trek is really cool, and it has pretty great lume...something Casios aren't known for.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
You should start referring to yourself with the nickname G-Shock. If you ever started a rap band, that would be your stage name.
HecticArt
Administrator
Yo! Yo!! YO!!!!
It's G-Shock tickity tock bouji watch round the clock don't ride my jock. Bitches, Cristal, Casio clocks, got time to rhyme, prime-time is mine. Don't be hatin, this ginger face is straight up gangstin. G-Shock Out!!!!! Peace.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
Did you have this in your back pocket, just waiting for the right occasion?
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
I assume pictures are forthcoming.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
I thought he was shaving everything.
JHDK
Release Robin's Bra
And some things you furiously masterbate to daily...
JHDK
Release Robin's Bra
Ok, enough talk of how you jerk off to my sexy arm Hectic, no one wants to hear that. Have some class man.
Let's talk watches.
I'll start off what I assume will be a rather lengthy rant with my cheaper buy...The all time classic Casio G-Shock GMW5610!
This thing is original 80's G-Shock cool with way more modern features. Solar, Multi Band 6 (aka atomic timekeeping) to name a few. This is my new workout watch. It's as close as you can get to buying the original G-Shock new these days and that's exactly why I wanted it. Here check out the OG from 1983, the greatest year ever because it bettered humanity forever by giving us both G-Shocks and Koopman:
I'd love to have an original but it's not worth the crazy prices they go for these days so I've very happy with this guy. I have much more expensive squares, the full metal ones, but there is something nice about the resin bezel version and the fact that you can beat it to shit and it will never die.
2 downsides to this model:
-When you change modes with my fancier models the time goes into that little box on the top right. With those models once the stopwatch hits an hour it stops displaying the 10th and 100th of a second and only counts by second so the time is always in that box. I like being able to run the stopwatch and see the time all at once. With this one the hours of the stopwatch go into the box so you have to switch modes to see the time.
-The full metal models have bigger buttons that are easier to push which is quite nice.
Whatever, not a huge deal.
I'm very happy with this purchase. Gotta have this classic in the collection. And I foresee this guy getting a lot of use in my quest to be less of a fatso.
It's amazing you can get this thing for under $100. I got mine for $83.
Great, classic watch.
Let's talk watches.
I'll start off what I assume will be a rather lengthy rant with my cheaper buy...The all time classic Casio G-Shock GMW5610!
This thing is original 80's G-Shock cool with way more modern features. Solar, Multi Band 6 (aka atomic timekeeping) to name a few. This is my new workout watch. It's as close as you can get to buying the original G-Shock new these days and that's exactly why I wanted it. Here check out the OG from 1983, the greatest year ever because it bettered humanity forever by giving us both G-Shocks and Koopman:
I'd love to have an original but it's not worth the crazy prices they go for these days so I've very happy with this guy. I have much more expensive squares, the full metal ones, but there is something nice about the resin bezel version and the fact that you can beat it to shit and it will never die.
2 downsides to this model:
-When you change modes with my fancier models the time goes into that little box on the top right. With those models once the stopwatch hits an hour it stops displaying the 10th and 100th of a second and only counts by second so the time is always in that box. I like being able to run the stopwatch and see the time all at once. With this one the hours of the stopwatch go into the box so you have to switch modes to see the time.
-The full metal models have bigger buttons that are easier to push which is quite nice.
Whatever, not a huge deal.
I'm very happy with this purchase. Gotta have this classic in the collection. And I foresee this guy getting a lot of use in my quest to be less of a fatso.
It's amazing you can get this thing for under $100. I got mine for $83.
Great, classic watch.
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JHDK
Release Robin's Bra
I was begging Hectic to have some class earlier and he just wouldn't listen so I guess I'll have to do it myself.
Behold, in all its beauty...The classy, yet utilitarian Casio Pro Trek PRW60T-7ACR:
Ooooooh...This thing is nice!
It a Pro Trek so it's packed with the normal features and some bonuses: ABC sensor (altimeter, baromotor, compass) plus thermometer but somehow they call it a triple sensor and ABC instead of a quad sensor and ABCT but whatever...Multi Band 6, solar power, titanium strap (making it very light), AWESOME LUME, tough movement and a really cool backlight.
Plus all the normal features...stopwatch, 4 alarms and an hourly chime, world time, countdown timer and recall if you want to record your altitude which I have never used in my other ABC Casios.
This is my 3rd Pro Trek. I have an all digital and another much like this but on a resin strap and different face, negative digital display and no Multi Band 6. I dig it but don't love it. It's early on yet but I think I love this watch. Also that other one is bigger. This is a very manageable about 43 or so mm (even though it's listed at 47 but my measurements along with a lot of videos say that's wrong).
So let's start off with the bad.
-The case isn't titanium, only the bracelet. The bezel is stainless and so is the back. I'm not sure about the caseback though, it looks a lot like titanium. The center case is some sort or resin or plastic, it would be much nicer if it was encased in all titanium. The buttons and crown are metal so that's cool though.
-The caseback is screw-in (meaning little screws hold it in place), not screw-down. As far as I know, no Pro Treks have screw-down casebacks, bummer.
-Mineral crystal. Now I paid $238 for this guy. That is the lower end of expecting sapphire but I've seen it done on cheaper watches so that would have been nice.
-Titanium scratches like a MAJ Badmotherfarker. In sizing it I've already scratched around the one of the pin and collar holes but that's kinda to be expected since I don't have the proper tools to size that type of bracelet and I did it all with a spring bar tool and a lighter as my hammer.
-It's a double clasp bracelet and I've noticed after a day of desk-diving at work that the secondary clasp kinda comes un-flush with the rest of the clasp if I'm wearing it above the bone and move my wrist in a certain way. It doesn't come undone but un-flush which is somewhat annoying.
So I think I've been fair in listing the bads, now let's list all the goods.
-LUME!!! Now you all know I'm a lume junkie. This this has BY FAR the most lume I've seen on a Casio. The hands have it, the hour indices have it but so do the minute indices and the subdial! Now it's not Seiko-quality lume but my goodness it's a lot of lume for any watch, let alone a Casio!
-Backlight. The backlight is different from my other protreks. It has one light for the digital display and another blue light a 6 pm that only lights the hands and has this awesome glow. My other one just has a white light at 6 that kinda lights the whole dial. This is way cooler. Here are my lume/backlight pics. I'm proud of this lume shot, it was not easy to get:
I'm less proud of this one but I think it gets the point across of how the backlight somehow shines on the hands in a sweet neon blue. Even the tip of the second hand gets illuminated. Super cool:
-Applied hour and minute indices. The hours indices as you can see are clearly raised, brushed, probably stainless. The minute indices are also raised! Very cool touch!
-The dial isn't cluttered. In some lights you don't even see the printing. It's very subtle and I've talked about before how I like a clean dial.
-TOUGH MOVEMENT! Now this means that everything properly aligns. As you WIS's likely know, with quartz watches having the second hand properly hit all the ticks is an issue even for some high end quartz watches. Tough Movement means it automatically adjusts every hour to make sure it hits the ticks. And if I don't like the auto-adjust it also lets me manually adjust it. Thats a big deal for quartz in my world.
-Bracelet. Before this I've had 0.0 watches I wear on a bracelet. This bracelet is nice besides that one thing I mentioned above. It's super light and just feels good on wrist.
So for now I guess that's all the good and bad I can think of writing about. 2019 was the year of me wearing my full metal square as my daily driver:
That thing is beautiful despite all the scratches I made it endure. I think 2020 might be the year of the Titanium Pro Trek.
I really like this thing.
Oh and here are some bonus shots of my new favorite watch with my favorite girl in the whole world, Athena:
Behold, in all its beauty...The classy, yet utilitarian Casio Pro Trek PRW60T-7ACR:
Ooooooh...This thing is nice!
It a Pro Trek so it's packed with the normal features and some bonuses: ABC sensor (altimeter, baromotor, compass) plus thermometer but somehow they call it a triple sensor and ABC instead of a quad sensor and ABCT but whatever...Multi Band 6, solar power, titanium strap (making it very light), AWESOME LUME, tough movement and a really cool backlight.
Plus all the normal features...stopwatch, 4 alarms and an hourly chime, world time, countdown timer and recall if you want to record your altitude which I have never used in my other ABC Casios.
This is my 3rd Pro Trek. I have an all digital and another much like this but on a resin strap and different face, negative digital display and no Multi Band 6. I dig it but don't love it. It's early on yet but I think I love this watch. Also that other one is bigger. This is a very manageable about 43 or so mm (even though it's listed at 47 but my measurements along with a lot of videos say that's wrong).
So let's start off with the bad.
-The case isn't titanium, only the bracelet. The bezel is stainless and so is the back. I'm not sure about the caseback though, it looks a lot like titanium. The center case is some sort or resin or plastic, it would be much nicer if it was encased in all titanium. The buttons and crown are metal so that's cool though.
-The caseback is screw-in (meaning little screws hold it in place), not screw-down. As far as I know, no Pro Treks have screw-down casebacks, bummer.
-Mineral crystal. Now I paid $238 for this guy. That is the lower end of expecting sapphire but I've seen it done on cheaper watches so that would have been nice.
-Titanium scratches like a MAJ Badmotherfarker. In sizing it I've already scratched around the one of the pin and collar holes but that's kinda to be expected since I don't have the proper tools to size that type of bracelet and I did it all with a spring bar tool and a lighter as my hammer.
-It's a double clasp bracelet and I've noticed after a day of desk-diving at work that the secondary clasp kinda comes un-flush with the rest of the clasp if I'm wearing it above the bone and move my wrist in a certain way. It doesn't come undone but un-flush which is somewhat annoying.
So I think I've been fair in listing the bads, now let's list all the goods.
-LUME!!! Now you all know I'm a lume junkie. This this has BY FAR the most lume I've seen on a Casio. The hands have it, the hour indices have it but so do the minute indices and the subdial! Now it's not Seiko-quality lume but my goodness it's a lot of lume for any watch, let alone a Casio!
-Backlight. The backlight is different from my other protreks. It has one light for the digital display and another blue light a 6 pm that only lights the hands and has this awesome glow. My other one just has a white light at 6 that kinda lights the whole dial. This is way cooler. Here are my lume/backlight pics. I'm proud of this lume shot, it was not easy to get:
I'm less proud of this one but I think it gets the point across of how the backlight somehow shines on the hands in a sweet neon blue. Even the tip of the second hand gets illuminated. Super cool:
-Applied hour and minute indices. The hours indices as you can see are clearly raised, brushed, probably stainless. The minute indices are also raised! Very cool touch!
-The dial isn't cluttered. In some lights you don't even see the printing. It's very subtle and I've talked about before how I like a clean dial.
-TOUGH MOVEMENT! Now this means that everything properly aligns. As you WIS's likely know, with quartz watches having the second hand properly hit all the ticks is an issue even for some high end quartz watches. Tough Movement means it automatically adjusts every hour to make sure it hits the ticks. And if I don't like the auto-adjust it also lets me manually adjust it. Thats a big deal for quartz in my world.
-Bracelet. Before this I've had 0.0 watches I wear on a bracelet. This bracelet is nice besides that one thing I mentioned above. It's super light and just feels good on wrist.
So for now I guess that's all the good and bad I can think of writing about. 2019 was the year of me wearing my full metal square as my daily driver:
That thing is beautiful despite all the scratches I made it endure. I think 2020 might be the year of the Titanium Pro Trek.
I really like this thing.
Oh and here are some bonus shots of my new favorite watch with my favorite girl in the whole world, Athena:
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HecticArt
Administrator
Regardless......it's still a nice watch.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
Nice looking watch, interesting (if lengthy) writeup.