When did G-Shock start moving towards their super chunky designs?
In 1990 I think the DW-6000 was the first bigger G-Shock. In 1993 the first Frogman model (DW-6300) was released, which was pretty heavy too. I noticed that Casio has actually been making more ‘mid-sized’ models since 2000, like the G-2300. But the recent G-7800 and G-7900 have gone back to the bigger look. The smaller squares derived from the original DW-5000C are also still popular… the latest model, the GW-5000 looks very nice in person. You recently got to meet ‘Father G’ Ibe Kikuo, the man who developed the G-Shock concept for Casio in the early 80s. What was he like? Did he talk much about the early days of the G-Shock project? I had a nice but short conversation with Ibe Kikuo-san. First of all, I think he is a great, down to earth, person. I mostly spoke about the prototype he was showing off and asked him about the DW-5000C without a serial number that was in one of the displays. He told me ‘It’s the number one’. I thanked him for creating G-Shock. I was with nine G-Shock co
