1983 Casio G-Shock DW-5000.......................A real tough team project!
The 1983 DW-5000, the first G-Shock ever produced was devised by Kikuo Ibe an employee of Casio, and developed by the 'Project Team Tough' trio in the later part of 1981. A year of throwing watches out of Toilet windows and hey presto! the most important plastic Watch ever was devised.
Eight prototypes were produced and all had the words 'Project Team Tough' on the lower left of the display, rightly so these are the rarest models to exist. Much later on in 2001 the DW-5000-1JF was released as a special edition and completely sold out in less than 70 hours. As you can see although they kept the screw back it use the 1545 Module, the original DW-5000 uses the 240 Module and it has a DW-5600E type Bezel fitted.
You can see the differences in the writing on the display, 'Water Resist 20Bar' replaces 'Water Resist 200M'. This was a highly anticipated reissue and Casio did a very nice job indeed.
Eight prototypes were produced and all had the words 'Project Team Tough' on the lower left of the display, rightly so these are the rarest models to exist. Much later on in 2001 the DW-5000-1JF was released as a special edition and completely sold out in less than 70 hours. As you can see although they kept the screw back it use the 1545 Module, the original DW-5000 uses the 240 Module and it has a DW-5600E type Bezel fitted.
You can see the differences in the writing on the display, 'Water Resist 20Bar' replaces 'Water Resist 200M'. This was a highly anticipated reissue and Casio did a very nice job indeed.
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