I stumbled upon a little gold mine at Walmart this weekend. Nine Timex watches and two others for a total of $215. The three Timexes on the left are very easy to read with my old eyes so they'll stay in my collection along with one of the others. The rest are heading to Flip City.
The only thing better about finding ONE classic G-Shock marked down at Walmart..... Is finding TWO classic G-Shocks marked down at Walmart. Happy holiday for me!
Yesterday I went by Walmart to see if any Casio watches ended up on markdown and was surprised when I looked in the case and saw all the prices on these models crossed out with magic marker. I asked an associate to check the prices for me and found out that they were now $7 to $10 above the original price.
I spent the weekend going to yard sales and today the flea market hunting for Casio treasures. I only came across two in both were pretty trashed... But at the last booth in the flea market was an old lady with typical old lady flea market stuff.... But she had two jewelry boxes stuffed with old ladies jewelry in one and the other had some men's stuff which I assume must have been her husband's..... Unfortunately no Casios..... But I found this gem from Protime which they only made in 85 and '86.... She said her husband called a James Bond watch....lol. spent some time cleaning it up and it took me a minute to wake up the LCD screen but it's one of the sharpest screens I've seen on a vintage digital watch..... We would have like this when I was in the army.... Because you could give your buddy the time and light his cigarette. It doesn't have an electric backlight.... But who needs it with this. This is a keeper..... And I love the graphics... So '80s
I wear a lot of casios but this one is still one of my favorites. The only thing I did was the old q-tip and nail polish remover to take off the world time and illuminator. I love the bronze colored case with the brown strap. I wore it today because it goes good with this shirt and yes I am one of those guys who matches his watch to his outfit. I have to go somewhere tomorrow so I'm going to wear it with my blue suit with brown shoes..... Yes, around here we wear brown shoes with blue suits.....lol
I have dozens of watches of every type including quite a few casios. Once I hit my 50s I began to need reading glasses and the past couple of years it became very hard to read many of my Casios on my wrist without squinting. Even my DW-5610U-1ER is slightly blurry without squinting and I cannot read the digital faces on any of my Ani-digi G-Shocks without reading glasses.
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Then along comes this watch in May 2026. I have both versions in black and this sand/bone color and I REALLY like it for function and for looks. I like how CASIO is giving us a monochromatic look with the gray surround around the display with a small white type and only the blue dashes near, mode, adjust, light, and search. I felt that it needed just one pop of color so I infilled the CASIO on the bottom of the bezel in red to give it a look like the Casio calculators from the 1970s.... This watch rapidly made it to become my everyday beater.
I have dozens of watches of every type including quite a few casios. Once I hit my 50s I began to need reading glasses and the past couple of years it became very hard to read many of my Casios on my wrist without squinting. Even my DW-5610U-1ER is slightly blurry without squinting and I cannot read the digital faces on any of my Ani-digi G-Shocks without reading glasses. Then along comes this watch in May 2026. I have both versions in black and this sand/bone color and I REALLY like it for function and for looks. I like how CASIO is giving us a monochromatic look with the gray surround around the display with a small white type and only the blue dashes near, mode, adjust, light, and search. I felt that it needed just one pop of color so I infilled the CASIO on the bottom of the bezel in red to give it a look like the Casio calculators from the 1970s.... This watch rapidly made it to become my everyday beater.