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History of G-Shock:
"PROJECT TEAM Tough" formed by the creator of G-Shock is Mr. Kikuo Ibe, which also known as father of G-Shock on 1981 to create "a watch that doesn’t break even when dropped". 200 experimental prototypes later, it was a child’s bouncing ball that lead to the finish product.
2 years later -- 1983, the first G-Shock released -- DW-5000C:

The first EL Backlight model is DW-6600 back in 1994:

In 1995, DW-6900 released which is one of the most popular models until today:

G-Shock produces a lot of collaboration models with popular fashion brands, artists, designers and animations, e.g. Stussy, Eric Haze, Bathing Ape, Lifted Research Group (LRG), One Piece, Cyborg 009.
This post has been edited by tomtom13: Nov 25 2012, 12:51 PM