Here are a couple of watches that I picked up recently.
I was browsing for a watch that I could do a blue dye job on, particularly an ICERC ‘Dolphin and Whale’ one as I think blue suits the theme of the watches.
I did spot this advert and decided to go for it as the ICERC watch is an unusual one and is rarely seen and it had the advantage of coming with another G Shock, never a bad thing. I picked up both watches for a really good price.
The DW-6900 look-a-like is actually the G-7210K-7AJR. This watch is particularly suitable for dyeing as the original clear resin was over a dark case not white and this gave a bit of a ‘dirty’ look to the watch even when new. Not sure why Casio thought this was a good idea.
Here is the watch as it arrived.
The watch has some good functions. It is tough solar and has an 100 hr stopwatch, it has a yacht countdown timer, settable for auto repeat or elapsed time modes, together with all the reset time and progress bleeper functions you tend to find on these. It has five alarms including snooze, dual time, auto EL, power save and that unusual feature a brightness alarm for if you want to wake up with the sunrise.
So I went ahead with the dying project as I am not that keen on the pee yellow colour of the aged resin and here are the results.
I did a dark blue to make sure the case was obscured. Perhaps I should have left it a little lighter. I am not sure whether to colour the bezel lettering white or not.
Here is the other watch.
It is the G-8100-7JF. The look of the watch is a bit ‘challenging’ and was very sci-fi when originally made. I think the look has aged pretty well and I think it looks pretty good, pretty modern.
The watch has 24 hr stopwatch and countdown timer. The countdown timer can auto repeat and has progress bleepers if required. It has world time, three fully functional date alarms including snooze and twin auto EL panels, you can turn the button tone off if desired.
The twin auto EL panels produce a pretty spectacular light display.
The watch was in very good condition, these glossy resin watches often show considerable wear on the bezel as the coating wears or is knocked off. This one has only a couple of very small marks.
Some wrist shots.
So pretty pleased with these two. They are very rarely seen so I thought it worthwhile to post about them as members are not likely to have seen them before, even though they are ‘marmite’ watches
Any thoughts on the watches and the dye job?
Mitch