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Swiss Army Mens Watches | Home » » » Casio Men's G-9000MS-1DR G-Shock Black Resin Digital Dial Watch | | | | | | | Description: | | This classic timepiece by Casio for men offers an all black resin case and bracelet. The black digital dial with digital numerals are finished with a quartz movement. Finally, this beautiful timepiece is water resistant up to 660 feet, ensuring lasting quality for years to come. | | | Features: | |
• Precise Quartz movement
• Black digital dial
• Black resin case and bracelet
• Scratch-resistant mineral crystal
• Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 M)
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 4.72 inches | | Package Width:
| 3.78 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.15 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 9 reviews |
| | | Watch Information: | | | Crystal Material:
| Mineral | | Clasp:
| Buckle | | Case Diameter:
| 42 millimeters | | Case Thickness:
| 10 millimeters | | Case Material:
| Resin | | Band Material:
| Resin | | Bezel Material:
| Resin | | Dial Color:
| black | | Movement:
| Quartz | | Calendar:
| day-date-and-month | | Water Resistance Depth:
| 660 feet |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Worth every pennyOct 12, 2010
By SDW
Watch is amazing. Use the Auto EL function and it automatically lights the watch up when you tilt your wrist to look at the time. Super durable case. Wore it diving and no problems. My brother and I are both ex-military and are very active in extreme sports. He just bought one also... Highly recommended.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Great watchSep 19, 2010
By speel
"speel"
Great watch. Nice functions. Very durable. Well designed. Negative display can be hard to read, but I like the look.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
The modern DW-5600Jun 29, 2011
By HOV600R
I bought this watch in a fit of G-Shock fever. There's something to be said about a sub-$100 timepiece that beats any $5,000 Swiss Made automatic for timekeeping, and is far more resilient in terms of maintaining its function than the human anatomy it's attached to.
Because this watch so handily beats any given mechanical watch in terms of toughness, accuracy, and illumination; and because it fails against those very same watches so miserably in terms of sartorial panache, my benchmark for comparison has to be another G-Shock.
I chose the DW-5600E, the most recent incarnation of the classic original G-Shock design, because I consider that watch to embody the G-Shock spirit perfectly. Indestructible, no-nonsense timekeeping. I also ordered (and returned the very next day) the solar/atomic Mudman previous to purchasing this stealthed, battery-powered model, so I'll make some comparisons between the two as well.
As we say in the military: here's the bottom line up front. The G-9000 in any battery-powered incarnation (choose your color or display type) is the modern DW-5600. It has updated looks, updated toughness, and updated functionality. It doesn't have added nonsense. Buy this modern classic with confidence.
To start the Mudman comparison with the venerable DW-5600, we need to establish why the DW-5600 continues to have an edge over the more modern G-Shock variants:
1. The timekeeping display of the DW-5600 clearly shows the time, day, and date. This sounds like a given for a watch, but so many G-shock variants (and watches in general) do not perform as well at doing this. Precious real estate on many models is given up to useless graphical displays of seconds ticking by, or other whiz-bang features that have nothing to do with the basic function of a watch. Thus, the size of the watch increases and the user is forced to put up with an intrusive, chunky clunker. To add complication, the user needs to peel a visual banana of data to get to the time. The DW-5600's face is clear and concise, with no graphics, and thus executes its primary function perfectly.
2. The DW-5600 continues to tell the time in the other modes. Running your stopwatch? No problem - time is in the upper right quadrant. Same goes for timer. This watch is still a watch even when it's doing chronometer functions.
3. The alarm on the battery-powered DW-5600 can be set for a given date. This is unexpectedly useful, and something the solar/atomic 5600 variant doesn't do. Yes, most of us have phones or other handheld devices that have appointment calendar functionality. But the ability to set an alarm for a given date has a Zen-like simplicity that a handheld can't match. The alarm goes off at the time and date you specify, thus you are reminded that you must do something. No worries that you accidentally left your phone in the car, or that it's on silence mode and you forgot to change it back. If you purchase a G-Shock, it's because you needed an all-condition friend to keep the time; you put it on and don't take it off, unlike a phone, which doesn't do so well at playing in the mud.
4. The DW-5600 has a countdown timer that can be set to the nearest second, vice the nearest minute like all other G-Shocks. It should go without saying, this is what you want if you need to time a task of a duration under a minute. As far as I know, this feature is unique among the G-Shock line. Unfortunately, not even the Mudman matches this feature.
5. Finally, the DW-5600 excels at being affordable. Sub-$40 in most cases.
Now on to the Mudman, point for point:
1. The display clearly shows time, day, and date. There is one small divergence to the useless: the mid-screen, left hand side sports a trapezoid-shaped graphic that builds and unbuilds itself with each passing second. Fortunately, this nod to uselessness is small and contained. I won't say that the additional data on the timekeeping screen is an improvement to the basic timekeeping shown on the DW-5600, but in the case of the Mudman's design at least this extra data isn't overly intrusive: there are two bars that show rough status of the two stopwatches (blinking block indicates 5-minutes chunk of time in progress, solid block indicates 5-minutes block of time complete), and there are indicators that show the alarms either set or not set. There are other indicators shown on the display also, but they're minor and take up no space: DST, auto-illumination, mute, flash.
2. The Mudman continues to show the time while using stopwatch, timer, and world time.
3. The Mudman's alarms can be set to a specific date. That means you can have an alarm go off on the same time, same day every month, or at the same time every day for a month, or on just one particular day. Here, the Mudman improves significantly on the DW-5600 alarm by offering 4 alarms settable as described above, plus a snooze-able alarm. Also, compared to the alarm volume on the solar/atomic Mudman, the battery-powered one is robust and just the right volume.
4. It's too bad the Mudman can't be set to the nearest second on the countdown timer.
5. The basic Mudman comes in under $70, and the stealthed version comes in about $20 more than that. Solar/atomic versions cost about $100. This is about on par for the cost of any G-Shock, but compared to other quality watches this represents an incredible value.
Here's how the Mudman has evolved from the functionality of the DW-5600 (the DW-5600 doesn't do any of this stuff):
Auto-illumination - this is an essential feature for the stealthed/negative display versions, which may suffer from reduced visibility in lowlight conditions compared to the positive display models. It basically turns the light on the display when you raise your arm up and tilt the watch toward your face.
Illumination time is selectable - you can choose from an illumination time of either 3 or 5 seconds. This applies to both auto and manually-initiated illumination.
Daylight savings time selectable - you can tell the watch that you're currently in DST.
Stopwatch auto-start - you can set a 5-second countdown, after which the stopwatch automatically begins. This helps for timing races, where you run the risk of telling the racers to begin, then fumbling the button.
Two stopwatches - they work independently.
4 alarms and one snooze alarm.
World time with 29 selectable time zones. A nice-to-have on travel.
And of course - the mud-resistant construction, which also allows the user to operate buttons underwater.
Now for another comparison: the solar/atomic Mudman vs the battery powered one.
After being hooked on mechanical watches for a while, I became sensitive to timepiece accuracy. Thus I thought it would be sweet to get a solar/atomic G-Shock to complement my already accurate and excellent classic DW-5600E. So I ordered the Solar/Atomic Mudman.
All other things aside, here's why I returned the watch the next day: it would not synch. Inside, outside, upside-down; it didn't matter where the thing was, I just couldn't get a good signal from Ft. Collins. My signal strength kept fluctuating between L0 and L3; some say the watch needs a constant L3 to synch. Some people had good luck wearing the watch to sleep, somehow enhancing the reception with bio-electrical goodness, but that's silly to me. If the watch is supposed to synch AND be usable anywhere in the U.S., then let it be so. It was not.
Additionally, the light on the solar/atomic model is not adjustable for time of illumination and the time it stays lit is SHORT. This is presumably (and ironically for a solar-powered model) to save battery life - it even mentions in the manual that one illumination will take 20 minutes under XYZ light and 5 minutes under ABC light to recharge. Yeah, so? Isn't that the point of being rechargable?
Overall, the solar/atomic model didn't fully function for this resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and I found it quirky and rather soulless. Perhaps residents of Colorado or surrounding states would be happier with it. The solar/atomic model also gives up some other functionality to the battery-powered one, but I didn't have it long enough to enumerate the differences here. Perhaps a shorter timer and one less stopwatch? In any case, for the amount of time it took me to fiddle with the radio receiver, I could have set the watch to atomic time manually about 25 times over. And given the incredible accuracy of these watches, you don't have to do that often to remain within a few seconds of atomic time throughout the year.
Finally, a comment on the stealth model. This thing is pretty cool. I'm not a fan of the red buttons on the regular Mudman, and I wanted to give a negative display a try because I never had one. The display is indeed hard to read in low light situations, but the Auto Illumination covers that easily, and the display is beautiful. If you're after the best bang for the buck, go for the regular battery-powered model. If you want to pay extra for some swank, then the stealth version won't let you down. Another added extra on the stealth model are some ion-coated metal pieces on the band and case. Nice touch, hard to imitate if you try to stealth out a regular Mudman.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Extremely good buy!Jul 10, 2011
By blah blah
This watch is an extremely good buy. It's durable, nice looking and amazingly light on the wrist! The only con for this would be that the inverted LCD might be hard to look at but that can be solved by auto illumination. If it doesn't bother you then go for it without a second thought. :)
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
HmmmmDec 28, 2010
By The Rum Lord
Nice watch, I am happy with it....however, it is not the head turner the other reviews make it out to be. IT IS DEFINITELY NOT A 52MM DIAMETER CASE!
But, it is still a nice looking G Shock. I just wish it was as big as the pics make it out to be.
I am keeping it, but getting an Invicta Russian Diver to fill my need for an obnoxiously big face watch.....
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