Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #842 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: DW5600CS-1
• Band material: Resin
• Bezel material: Resin
• Case material: Resin
• Clasp type: Buckle
• Dial color: orange
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: Quartz
• Water-resistant to 330 feet

Features

• Quartz movement
• Protective Mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 40.1 mm
• Resin case; Orange dial; Day-date-and-month functions
• Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
With its bold orange dial, this limited edition Tough Culture Watch #DW5600CS-1 from Casio's shock-resistant G-Shock Collection offers a fresh spin on a classic digital design. Chock full of helpful features--from a multifunction alarm, countdown timer, and 1/100-second stopwatch--this durable and sporty timepiece can keep your day on-track. Water resistant to 330 feet, it also offers an auto calendar pre-programmed until the year 2099, 12- or 24-hour formats, and a two year battery life. There's even a flash alert with buzzer to make sure you stay on top of things. Boasting the precision of quartz movement, this Casio original is accurate, reliable, and a pleasure to wear. This watch is protected by a one-year manufacturer's warranty.

The G-Shock Story

G-Shock - Absolute Toughness

With the launch of its first watch in 1974, Casio entered the wristwatch market at a time when the watch industry had just discovered digital technology. Armed with cutting-edge technology developed for pocket calculators, Casio entered the field confident it could develop timepieces that would push watch technology forward.

Casio’s G-Shock line was created on just such a directive: to build a watch that never breaks. And in 1983, this product was developed to shatter the notion that a watch is simply a fragile piece of jewelry that needs to be handled with care.

G-Shock is renowned as the world’s toughest watch and is in the midst of a huge renaissance since its 25th anniversary celebration last year. It is the best trending watch brand in the industry right now and thanks to its toughness and durability as well as it’s cutting-edge technology, it is among the best values in not only timekeeping but all personal accessories.

In addition to toughness, 200 meter resistance and fantastic cutting edge and hip styling some G-shocks also have such technology as Tough Solar Power for battery life of 20-30 years (great for our planet), Atomic timekeeping for the more precise time available on earth as well as unique features like moon phase and tide graphs.

G-Shocks come in a variety of styles including Rubber/Resin bands, Solid Stainless Steel and even Titanium.

Since it’s launch, Casio’s G-Shock continues to evolve and push the envelope. The non-stop, self-adjusting (solar-powered atomic-timekeeping) G-Shocks featured in the Amazon.com assortment are the latest, greatest example of this evolution!

The Casio Story

In developing its own wristwatches Casio began with the basic question, "What is a wristwatch?" Rather than simply making a digital version of the conventional mechanical watch, we thought that the ideal wristwatch should be something that shows all facets of time in a consistent way. Based on this, Casio was able to create a watch that displayed the precise time including the second, minute, hour, day, and month — not to mention a.m. or p.m., and the day of the week. It was the first watch in the world with a digital automatic calendar function that eliminated the need to reset the calendar due the variation in month length. Rather than using a conventional watch face and hands, a digital liquid crystal display was adopted to better show all the information. This culminated in the 1974 launch of the CASIOTRON, the world’s first digital watch with automatic calendar. The CASIOTRON won acclaim as a groundbreaking product that represented a complete departure from the conventional wristwatch.

Casio transformed the concept of the watch — from a mere timepiece to an information device for the wrist — and undertook product planning based on this innovative idea. We developed not only time functions such as global time zone watches, but also other radical new functions using Casio’s own digital technology, including calculator and dictionary functions, as well as a phonebook feature based on memory technology, and even a thermometer function using a built-in sensor. The memory-function watches became our DATA BANK product series, while the sensor watches developed into two unique Casio product lines of today: the Pathfinder series displaying altitude, atmospheric pressure, and compass readings.

In 1983, Casio launched the shock-resistant G-Shock watch. This product shattered the notion that a watch is a fragile piece of jewelry that needs to be handled with care, and was the result of Casio engineers taking on the challenge of creating the world’s toughest watch. Using a triple-protection design for the parts, module, and case, the G-Shock offered a radical new type of watch that was unaffected by strong impacts or shaking. Its practicality was immediately recognized, and its unique look, which embodied its functionality, became wildly popular, resulting in explosive sales in the early 1990s. The G-Shock soon adopted various new sensors, solar-powered radio-controlled technology (described below), and new materials for even better durability. By always employing the latest technology, and continuing to transcend conventional thinking about the watch, the G-Shock brand has become Casio’s flagship timepiece product.

Today, Casio is focusing its efforts on solar-powered radio-controlled watches: the built-in solar battery eliminates the nuisance of replacing batteries, and the radio-controlled function means users never have to reset the time. In particular, the radio-controlled function represents a revolution in time-keeping technology similar to the impact created when mechanical watches gave way to quartz technology. Through the further development of high radio-wave sensitivity, miniaturization, and improved energy efficiency, Casio continues to produce a whole range of radio-controlled models.

Customer Reviews

Beware of Color Inconsistency & Scuffs
This is a classic G-Shock style that looks great in the various colorways they've offered recently, but a few warnings for potential buyers:

- I own this watch in the yellow band/blue face and black band/orange face. Although the picture may lead you to believe the face is deep orange, red even, it is a highly saturated picture, as I've noticed is a G-Shock trend, and it is indeed orange, with the "SHOCK RESIST" and "G-SHOCK" appearing nearly neon orange. I had this problem with another G-Shock that was listed online and appeared as red, but showed up to my door as orange, but at least the listing for this mentions the "Orange dial". It is a lot more orange in real life.

- The shiny nature of the band, in this black version and the yellow version, seems to open it up to more scuffing. For someone who wears it infrequently and only during moderately active activities (biking, playing video games, going to the bar), I do bang it into things and eventually get a scuff that won't clean off. I have other G-Shocks with matte bands, and they don't show scuffs this bad even after wearing them very frequently for 9 years, let alone for just a few months. The shiny band is a nice look that's sure to catch some eyes, but if you wear it frequently, it's gloss is sure to fade.

This watch is a gem
I own several G-Shock Casio watches including PAW1500T-7V, etc. The DW5600CS-1 limited edition watch is definitely a keeper. The watch looks far better than the picture on the Amazon site. This limited edition of the classic Casio watch, has all the ergonomics that made G-Shock family of watches famous. The dark black, glossy colour of the watch, with orange LCD screen makes it very unique. Classic, robust but still modern and fashionable today. I didn't get so many compliments for other, much more expensive watches that I bought.

I guess the only drawback of the unique orange LCD screen is that it is harder to read in low-light situations, but this watch also has backlight which works very well in case of low-light. Shiny black watch band is really eye catching, but may be less resistant to scuffs.

Anyway, I think at this price point DW5600CS-1 is a bargain.

THE SHOCKERRRR!!!!
this watch is straight man comfort is great and style is even better i plan on buying many more G SHOCK TO rock wit my gear u should get on this gear before i gets to hot..