The strap isn’t especially pliable, but this hasn’t been a problem as the watch should be worn loosely. The hour and minute hands can be brought together as one at the start of a dive to indicate the diving time. Next to the highly functional watch, a diver’s knife is included in the set, branded with the G-SHOCK logo as well.

The dial itself embraces a largely dark gray and blue color profile with bright white luminous hands and hour markers, along with a date window at the 4:30 location.First released in 1996, the MR-G line was intended to push G-SHOCK into the realm of luxury watches, using familiar designs re-imagined with premium materials and technologies.

You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. While I didn’t have time to fully explore the tide graph feature, it could be quite useful for someone who does a good deal of tidal-sensitive diving in a particular spot. Growing up, I was a huge science fiction fan, and one of the things I used to wonder about in my spare time was what you would want to have with you if you invented a time machine, got into the time machine, managed to travel back in time to the age of the dinosaurs (everyone nowadays talks about the Jurassic period but I've always been a Cretaceous period fan. If your list says “dive” and “Bluetooth connection,” then you’ll be looking mostly at the G-Shock GWF-A1000 Frogman.The asymmetrical shape stops the case from hitting your wrist when you’re bending it, and makes the buttons easier to press. The screw-lock case back is fit with sapphire crystal finished in vibrant blue vapour deposition and engraved with the iconic FROGMAN diving frog character. It’s well-designed, fast, stable, and provides an easy way to change various features on the watch, in addition to managing dive-specific features.