I can’t give you a model No., but I’d go for one that is solar powered/radio controlled = no messing about with setting the right time and no battery to change.
i treated myself to one of these last year from amazon…reasonably cheap at £58 i thought…i think it’s even cheaper now…
does all the jobs i need it to do and is now my watch of choice…leaving the rest of my expensive watch collection for more suitable occasions…
I have the same one as oddjob. Again, find it hard to see the red hour hand, and the back light thing is rubbish. Other than the fact its difficult to actually read the time off it, its a good watch….
I’ve got the same one as Gonzy. I’ve worn it everyday for the last 3, maybe 4 years and it’s held up really well.
If I had the same budget as the OP I’d go for a solar/radio controlled one.
I don’t think there’s any duffers out there, just pick one you like the look of.
The watchuseek G Shock forum is a bit odd, linky, but quite interesting.
The G Shock Wiki site, linky, is a decent resource.
And don’t feel that you’re restricted to the watches on the UK Casio site – there lots more out there – even high street jewellers carry models not listed by Casio UK.
I got this one, just looked at a bunch of them and found it to have the most clear face. Also needed the world time setting.
Why are the back-lights so crap though? My £5 Aldi watch has a better back-light!
at least I assume the reason is the solar power (energy conservation).
if either of those things matter to you, I’d avoid the solar powered ones. I’m not even sure if it’s worth it, the battery in my old non-solar g-shock lasted for years and years and that had a decent alarm and backlight
The orange light cast over the front of the orange-on-black digital readout (not backlit) renders them invisible. You can see the hands though.
If the watch is in a tent pocket next to my head, the alarm is inaudible.
I’ve heard that the batteries in the solar powered watches are small, and need replacing every couple of years, so the overall benefit over non-solar watches is questionable in my opinion. be interesting to see if/when I need to replace my batteries.
…just reading the site, that one I link to above (model Classic GW-M5610-1ER) seems to have atomic/radio time correction without the solar, making me want it even more.
It would seem most of the ones I like the look of have a red hour hand, is the problem of seeing it just limited to the model owned by oddjob and flange?
some of these g shocks are nice looking and all that but i prefer the timex ironman shock, bombproof, cheaper, great fabric strap, easy to read digital display
i use the Riseman, GW-9200-1ER. don’t really wear a watch unless i’m out in the hills (etc) so this one is perfect. altimeter works very well so far & gives you something else to help with navigation (not massively useful for mtb, but great for mountaineering/hill walking). it works on barometric pressure so can tell you if crap weather is coming in.
solar powered/radio controlled. world time is useful.
auto-illuminator – love this function – light comes on with wrist movement. great for night riding!
top bit of kit. hoping it’ll last every bit as long as my previous g-shock, which served 15 years.
I think mine is so hard to see because the face of the watch is quite busy. There’s an awful lot of (fairly useless) information being fired at you which can make it quite hard to pick out the actual time. It’s also quite a dark red against a fairly dark background
Its not that you can’t see it at all, it just takes a bit more than a glance in the general direction of it to know the time.
On the plus side its far more comfortable to wear than my more expensive watches – the clasp on it doesn’t dig into my wrist like my other watches when I’m using a keyboard. Its also bombproof – I’ve had it about 6 months and worn it on a number of occasions when I’ve crashed on the bike and its still mint.
Only thing is my skinny wrists, just wondering if they’d look a bit big on me. I’ll need to find somewhere at Merry Hell tomorrow that stocks them, to see it in the flesh as it were.