>>645616>>645474>>645505Here's my advice (I'm the casiofag again)
When looking into "a g-shock" in general you should also count on looking up pro treks. The're not certified overbuilt but they're about as durable.
Just dont buy any casios that have gimmicks like compass, barometer etc unless you want precisely that; a cool gimmick, because the extra functions in casios (yes, including the 500$ ones) are not reliable.
You're better set with the best g-shock or pro trek you can get that only tells the hour. The only fuctional gimmick that is reliable and that I myself want in my casios is the solar power. It works great. More than cool gimmicks you should look at these features (that are rarely ever acknowledged or talked about on the net):
-toughness
-readability (very important, most casios are very cluttered)
-Number to size ratio (size of the numbers vs size of the watch, it gets ridiculous in some models, with a giant watch with tiny numbers)
-appearance (up to your taste, but for me those thick fat ones are ugly for the most part, and smaller watches like the 5600 actually have bigger numbers than beefy ones like the 6900)
I cannot stress this enough, dont buy a watch with gimmicks unless you want them as gimmicks, expecting a substitute for a proper compass or gps.
Also dont buy a model just because"MUH MILITARY TOUGHNESS". All g-shocks are extremely tough, so for example buying a mudman or a frogman over a cheaper 5600 is in my oppinion a waste of money.
Tl:dr.
All g-shocks and pro-treks are guaranteed functional, so focus on aesthetics, display to size ratio and readability instead of number of functions (except solar power) and tacticoolness.
