Assuming the watch you're getting has a fresh battery, it will be long long time before you need worry about changing its battery. The shiny look does not look too bad in the pics, the thing that drove me crazy with shiny straps was they tended to make a creaking sound when you flexed your wrist. Come join the discussion about watch collections, displays, watch winders, accessories, classifieds, and more! It is not an uncommon problem, however, that the auto EL function on 5600 models malfunctions out of the factory. I would pick them over Seiko though (even though they are pretty much the same company as Seiko bought out Orients).

I always wanted a smaller G-Shock with a moon phase feature that was solar and atomic so this checks off the boxes.I was really worried of the legibility of the negative display especially after checking out some reviews on the net. The G-Shock GWX-5600 is a G-LIDE surfing model with Tough Solar, Multi-Band 6 auto radio time correction, and a tide and moon graph. Trust me, beside the WIS watch people, everyone will look at any Seiko as a 100 dollars watch, regardless if it's a 500 dollars Sumo, or 1000 dollars Shogun. According to the chart, it looks like I can use a GW5000 strap and bezel from my stash on this watch. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Inspired by the camouflage clothing used in the car, sand beige matte color is used for the entire case and band.

Is the Solar and Atomic function worth getting even though I would be getting a negative display that would be hard to read?

International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. After countless prototypes and two years of dedicated work, the shock-resistant structure was perfected, giving birth to the technology that defines G-Shock's toughness. differs between the country where the watch is used and the country where the standard time signal is transmitted. When a watch is subjected to a large impact, momentarily distortion occurs in the module, preventing contact failures and malfunctions.I just don't know if I could live with the disadvantage of not being able to quickly read the time on certain lighting.