G-Shock X-Large GA100

Excellent product. I really love it.

I got a G-Shock because everyone says you need at least one in your collection and I loved the black and red design of this, didn’t need anything more advanced and figured if didn’t like it I could always exchange it for something else. It’s pretty damn fantastic, full of features and fits nicely. There are however a few issues that I have come across: first and foremost is that the back light is next to useless. It comes from a light at the bottom of the watch and so mainly only illuminates the lower portion - the hour hand is darker and much harder to see against background and so in the dark, all I can see is the minute hand. Secondly, the “signal” or hourly beep is a tad on the weak side and not at all like the strong beep beeps of much cheaper Casio watches. The final thing is that I am not entirely sure what the “speed dial” is for and find that it rather just clutters up the background - on this note, when the minute or hour hands pass the lower side of the screen (from about 4pm to 8pm) the hands get in the way of the small displays with the date and seconds making it harder to see them. That aside, it’s a chunky but very nice watch that feels well built and for the most part easy to read and use.

At the time I reviewed this item. The item did not arrive for some time. The product did not state it was coming from New York and the postage was very expensive as you can imagine, although the email address was uk. I am also not convinced that the watch is the real thing. I did contact the seller who tried to convince me and he credited my credit card for the postage. Please be careful purchasing watches online as there are loads of counterfeit and they are hard to spot the difference.

The watch has several design flaws and only scrapes a 3 star for this: Pros: -Visually attractive watch and looks stylish and well proportioned on wrist -Digital display is 'ok' -Feature set is Cons -The digital display has moderately poor viewing angles and loses contrast easily -The red hour hand is difficult to see when using the analogue display for timekeeping, at night it is even harder because it is red and does not contrast with the dial significantly enough (it should be white like the minute hand). -the lume does NOT affect the hands, so it is pointless as only the dial indices have the lume function. -the LED light is very poor, it does not significantly light up the analogue dial and does not in any fashion light up the digital dial. -ergonomically a very confused watch that could better with some essential tweaks!

Good watch. I bought it for my son. Way too big big for his wrists. But its virtually in destructible. He loves it.

El reloj cumple muy bien con sus funciones. No tuve ningún problema

Pros: the watch is durable, functional,customizeable, has a relatively simple manual, has a neat auto-light function (not extremely useful, but cool nevertheless), and is very stylish. Cons: the ones you've heard before: weak backlight(can be fixed by holding your finger over top half of watch while backlight is on). I don't know if others have experienced this, but my watch came with the speedometer hand off by a hair (fixable by navigating to time/date mode and holding "forward", then adjusting the hands to their 12 o'clock positions with "forward", "reverse" and "mode" buttons. Another minor con is the fact that the speedometer is not, in fact a speedometer, but a calculator of distance/time based on previously entered data. If I had done a little more research, this would've been clear to me. Overall, I would definitely recommend this watch to a friend (and have done so before), I haven't spent a day without it on.

Exactly what i wanted from the watch quality is good, it is also nice and light, looks bulky but it doesnt feel it.

very nice watch and was what it says it is.