{"id":41586,"date":"2025-01-06T15:48:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T14:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/?p=41586"},"modified":"2025-01-06T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T14:48:43","slug":"end-of-year-24-whats-out-and-whats-new-in-the-watch-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/end-of-year-24-whats-out-and-whats-new-in-the-watch-box\/","title":{"rendered":"End-Of-Year ’24: What’s Out, and What’s New In, the Watch Box?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s now 2025, so let’s take a quick look at what happened to the watch box in 2024. A few slots opened up with the sale of some of my G-SHOCKs, so of course I felt the need to fill those slots!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s Out:<\/strong> Four nice G-SHOCKs that weren’t getting worn, so off to new owners they go! The super MIPs display of the GBD-200UU-9, the GW-7900B along with it’s new light grey bezel and strap, the GA-2100 “CasiOak”, with black dial black hands black case (“triple black”), and the rare GW-M5610BC-1JF. Legibility suffers on all these negative display watches, with the possible exception of the GBD-200UU-9’s MIPs, but even that watch simply didn’t get any attention from me. My disinterest is someone else’s benefit: the new owners are all very happy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GW-7900B<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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GA-2100-1A1ER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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GW-M5610BC-1JF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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What’s New In:<\/strong> Just one G-SHOCK, a few homages, a couple builds, and more modifications. Oh, and a wall clock! I added a GA-2000-5A<\/strong>, a model of G-SHOCK I really like, this is my third. A great dial and easy to read, and the buttons are big and easy to push. The strap articulates more than what is normal on a G-SHOCK, and it has the “Carbon Core Guard”, making it really light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I picked up a “GADA” (Go Anywhere, Do Anything) homage to the Rolex “Air King”, a Pagani Design PD1692<\/strong>. The dial is a very deep black, and it’s just a nice little change-of-pace piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cadisen Aqua Diver<\/strong> is an homage to the Helm Komodo, and I’ve written about it before. Great dial, even better hands, without the heft, price, and waiting list of the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Heimdallr homage to the Seiko MM300<\/strong> was a stellar pickup, the monobloc case is a winner and gives the watch a big presence, and the shark logo on the dial is icing on the cake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seiko Aliexpress Builds! <\/strong>First, the Seiko Samurai \/ King Turtle “mashup”<\/strong>. I combined the “grenade” dial and day\/date NH36 movement of a King Turtle, with the case and hands of a Samurai, making the watch that I wanted. Same concept with the Seiko SKX007 build<\/strong>, adding a domed sapphire crystal, sloping bezel insert, and semi-skeletonized orange hands. Finally, the Steeldive SD1975 (Seiko “Tuna” homage)<\/strong> got more modifications, as I replaced the orange dial with a black “pyramid” pattern dial, a new black chapter ring, and white\/orange hands. All the parts came from Aliexpress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SKX007 build<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cadisen Aqua Diver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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GA-2000-5A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pagani Design PD1692<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fancy wall clock!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steeldive SD1975 mod<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Samurai\/King Turtle mashup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heimdallr “SharkMaster”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s now 2025, so let’s take a quick look at what happened to the watch box in 2024. A few slots opened up with the sale of some of my G-SHOCKs, so of course I felt the need to fill those slots! What’s Out: Four nice G-SHOCKs that weren’t getting worn, so off to new<\/p>\n

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