Casio G-Shock
A retired Sergeant First Class, formerly a Senior Weapons Sergeant with 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), wearing a Casio G-Shock. The photo is from Camp Bundasi in Ghana, on the African Crisis Response Initiative, training the Ghanaian Defense Force. Peacekeeping work rarely comes home with a story anyone asks about at a barbecue. It is mostly teaching, in a place nobody at home could find on a map. Where is the furthest from home your watch has been to work? If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.
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Casio G-Shock
In 1981 a Casio engineer named Kikuo Ibe broke a watch his father gave him, and set out to build one that could not be broken: survive a ten meter drop, ten bar of water, and a ten year battery. He tested prototypes by throwing them out of a third floor bathroom window.
The 1983 result created a category that did not previously exist, and forty years on the G-Shock is the default watch of soldiers, medics, skydivers and anyone else whose day involves impact.
More G-Shocks have been to war than any Swiss watch ever will. It is the most issued piece of wrist equipment in the world, and it earned that the hard way.