Confession of a Casio Watch Addict

Looking backwards to the watches I have owned, most of it are Casio's product. Is it because being Asian, we have accessed to one of the most digital watch manufacturer from Japan? Or am I just a casio-digital-watch-sucker?

I remembered my very first digital watch was similar to this model. This watch got lost during my high school days, no one admitted to have stolen it from me.

After the incident, did not purposely brought a watch myself. Then MaMa-tze brought me a watch in order to train me manage time better. The watch looks some what like this model, analog and digital.

This watch serve me well, until the analog stopped one fine day and were beyond repair. It was a mystery why it stopped. Came along my very first G-Shock G COOL, this is the only watch I fixed many times. Come to think it, most of the time it was broke after my brothers borrow it from me (unless I have selective-memory-lost).

During college days, a bunch of college mates brought me another Casio watch and this model has a vibration alarm. Been using this watch until now, only thing was the EL light has gone dead... but it never fails to vibrate till today.

Later I found myself looking for a serious watch with both digital and analog display. There were some nice G-Shocks but then it was HEAVY in weight and price too. Later I found myself on the cross road between these 2 watches:
1) Casio E-Databank (EBD-501)
*Pictures will be updated later this week

2) Timex Ironman Triathlon Dress Watch

Both were good watches, the Timex have a better steal too and a little heavy on the weight compare to Casio E-Databank (EDB-501). I choose Casio over Timex mainly because it looks younger, and I'm a Casio-犯賤-dude! A year later, Timex IronMan was featured in Stranger than Fiction!

However Richie.L (my casio dude) claims that I made the right choice. This Casio watch only made it to my blog, but not as famous as the Timex. Picture may not be available this time, but will post once I managed to resolved my PC issues.

G-Shocks came out with Lover Collection version of Couple-Watch, you can find out more at JayV's website in Hong Kong on the previous collections. 2008 Lover's Collection will be out from November onwards, design is almost like 2007 Collection but with more of a sleeker look.

The Casio LOV-08A-7DR

The Casio LOV-08B-7DR

Will call my dude to find out the price first, but recently Casio watch prices went up since mid 2008. Wonder if I can still get some discounts?

Hi I am tze, I am a self-confess Casio Addict. I need a sponsor.

Casio G-Shock GT-000

This happens to be my 5th Casio Watch but my very 1st G-Shock owned. This watch has been with me since almost 10years and it is still running fine. Thou there are minor bruises here and there, hey this is G-Shock which is not made of MARVEL IRONMAN suit!

This watch was brought from Japan Casio Factory, there is Japanese Characters if I need to save some information in it. The features of this watch:
- Time 12Hours / 24Hours
- Telephone (Shared Storage 100)
- Schedule (Shared Storage 100)
- Vital Stats (Personal Information: Name/Blood Type/Birth/Credit/License.. etc etc Storage 9)
- Alarm (1)
- Stop Watch

I don't think any G-Shocks come with telephone & schedule storage anymore. Both useful but had a hard time selecting characters by pressing 2 buttons.

Bad things happen to this watch over the past 10 years?
-Grey Mode Button faulty / Replace Black Mode Button
-Original Band Buckle was faulty / Replace Normal G-Shock Band (Lighter & easier to wear)

-Authorized G-Shock Shop assistance change the battery for this watch and did not put things back in place which results the watch was drowned when I went swimming in Bukit Jalil Swimming Pool. The shop was closed, I hope they were no longer authorized now.
-1 Month recovery after it was drowned and paid almost RM150 to get it fixed

So far to me this is a fine piece of G-Shock, some people tend to not recognized this as a actual G-Shock watch and had some bad comments on it. But heck, at least mine went to Mt. K.K., London, France, Scotland, H.K., Japan.... (will be more places too)

The time displayed for this watch is until 2039, almost another 30years. So will this watch survive then?

Drop-Blog

Hey this is an interesting links:

50G's is a blog about the Casio's G-SHOCK

Being a Casio owner I am surprise there are so many other units available, take a look