although I don’t have a full digital.
Well now you do have a digital watch, a good’un and you probably won’t need another. It does a lot and only weights about 60g, all the others watches you buy can be for ‘occasions’. So It serves to save those “s” from wear and tear too.
I refer to my other thread I create today 🙁
Which resonated with me, but honestly a 5610 can easily justify its presence in amongst all the other watches you might own.
I have several other somewhat redundant digital watches, my 5610 is my default beater/travel/doing stuff watch, it didn’t break the bank to buy (also from Amazon), it does way more than a dive watch (functionally) it will last a couple of decades (solar), as noted you’ll knacker the strap long before anything else. You have made a pretty wise purchase (IMO).
It sort of embodies what the G shock brand is to me, functional, affordable (but not cheap) robust digital watches for people who don’t want to deal with a broken timepiece every other day.
TBH that metal GM-B2100 is kind of the antithesis; an overpriced, shiny wrist bauble trading on some notion of G Shock “Heritage”, a vague resemblance to an AP Royal Oak plus verbose, bullshit laced endorsements from whichever self aggrandising, aspirational capitalist grifter is doing the rounds currently. I’ll admit I just don’t get metal G shocks.
GW-M5610(u): A relatively sensible purchasing decision.
GM-B2100: Casio’s current grift to separate millennials from £500 most probably don’t have spare.
But we all have different ideas and opinions I suppose 😉