If you are reading this blog, I think you should know what a G-Shock is and little bit about its history. In short, G-Shock is a creation Kikuo Ibe (and his team of course) in 1983 to have a “Triple 10” – 10 years battery life, 10 bar water resistance, and more importantly survive a 10 metres drop. Fast forward to today, the G-Shock catalog has an overwhelming model range. However, one model that stays true to the original 1983 model is the Casio G-Shock DW-5600. Nicknamed G-Shock square due its squarish appearance (I think it’s a rectangle), this model has always been a favourite among watch enthusiasts.

A couple of years back, I received an entry level G-Shock DW-9052 from my company as an appreciation award for staying with them for 5 years. My first G-Shock. It has a basic time keeping function with day and date, a single alarm, a stop watch, and a time. That’s it. It has the same basic function as a basic G-Shock square but in a flashier display and fancier case. It is quite wearable for my small wrist too. Getting this G-Shock started my itch to get a G-Shock square.

That led me to the Casio G-Shock DW-5600 E-1. It is a square with a little more spice but not too spicy. Apart from having a basic time keeping function, it has world time. I do not travel a lot but I need to work with people from different time zone in my job. Having a world time watch makes it handy. The watch is also solar powered. Yes, it does deviate from the original 10 years battery requirement but in a much better way that nobody would complain, I guess. It is what some would call a doomsday watch. It retains the look of the original square and it wears nicely on all wrist sizes. I am not going to go into the full specifications for this watch but I would just say that it has an impressive specifications that should be sufficient for a lot of us.