The high-end watch world has an comprehensible affection for Casio. You’ll be able to simply rock an iconic, brightly coloured F-91W in any assembly with a luxurious model, and you will get nods of approval. It’s, in any case, the watch that has graced the wrists of Barack Obama and Napoleon Dynamite.
If not the F-91W, you would be on comparable protected floor sporting the well-known “CasiOak” that many G-Shock followers love due to its greater than passing resemblance to Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak, which was just lately given a equally reasonably priced makeover by Swatch with the Royal Pop. First launched in 2019, the wallet-friendly G-Shock GA-2100 earned the nickname largely due to its octagonal case form and is taken into account by some the definition of attainable luxurious.
Now, nonetheless, it seems Casio has one thing genuinely new for the G-Shock line. Leaked on Notebookcheck and Instagram, the upcoming GMC-2500 and GAC-2500 sequence echo the CasiOak’s hyperlinks to high-end model AP with greater than a passing resemblance to Patek Philippe’s Nautilus due to outstanding shoulders on both aspect of the case.
Casio didn’t reply to WIRED’s request for remark.
In 1972, legendary watchmaker Gérald Genta prompt an angular stainless-steel watch design to Audemars Piguet with a high-end motion inside that might, perversely, be dearer than gold costume watches. The Royal Oak, and the concept of the posh sports activities watch, was born. In 1976, Genta repeated the trick for AP’s foremost competitor, Patek Philippe, to create the now equally well-known Nautilus.
In accordance with Notebookcheck, the GAC-2500 sequence is a resin analog lineup supposedly constructed from the DNA of the DW-5000C, the very first G-Shock made again in 1983. Stainless-steel variations will likely be labeled the GMC-2500 sequence. To date, nicknames just like the “CasioNaut” and “CasioTilus” are already being thrown round on Instagram. The leaked 4 resin colorways in November are anticipated to be white, black, inexperienced, and yellow, and the value is estimated at ¥20,900 (about $134) every. The steel variations will supposedly retail for about $320.
