Father of G-Shock Kikuo Ibe has been with the company for 40 years, developing timepiece structures for Casio’s digital watch division. In 1983, his passion leads him to develop the first G-Shock watch and has since been involved with numerous product developments including Casio\u2019s OCEANUS, first ever radio-controlled and solar powered analog watch range. With his rich experience, Mr Ibe has certainly gone through the evolution of time and watch in the industry.<\/p>\n
Last week, he came to Malaysia to introduce a new range of premium timepieces, “Master of G”. We managed to nab Mr Ibe for a chat, on his favourite piece from the collection, and the number of G-Shock watch he owns.<\/p>\n
1} What do you think sets G-Shock apart from other watch brands?<\/strong><\/p>\n The main thing that sets G-Shock watches apart is its durability and strength. There is no other watch in this world can compete with the toughness of G-Shock.<\/p>\n To make sure you\u2019ve gotten the original G-Shock Watch, throw it against the wall as hard as you can, if it\u2019s broken then it\u2019s not a G-Shock Watch.<\/p>\n 2} What are the craziest ways you have tested the G-Shock\u2019s strength?<\/strong><\/p>\n We have tried many ways to test its strength. We tried throwing it out of the toilet window on the 2nd floor, running it over with a sedan car. There is one method that we would really want to try but we couldn’t which is to let an elephant to stomp on the watch.<\/p>\n 3} How many watches did you throw before you got it right? <\/strong><\/p>\n More than 200 watches<\/p>\n 4} How many G-Shock do you personally own?<\/strong><\/p>\n I have 4 G-Shock watches. One is the first G-Shock watch, DW-5000. It’s the one and only one in the world. The other 3 watches are the DW-5600 which shares the similar design with DW-5000, but the watches are in different colours \u2013 white, black, and red. I wear them according to the seasons. White in summer, black in spring and autumn, red in winter.<\/p>\n 5} Do you have any\u00a0favourite from the recent collection? <\/strong><\/p>\n It would be the MASTER of G\u2019s Frogman and the Gravity Master. I really like these two watches but they don\u2019t look good on me.<\/p>\n Related: Father of G-Shock Kikuo Ibe has been with the company for 40 years, developing timepiece structures for Casio’s digital watch division. In 1983, his passion leads him to develop the first G-Shock watch and has since been involved with numerous product developments including Casio\u2019s OCEANUS, first ever radio-controlled and solar powered analog watch range. With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":34217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[41,38,19,44],"tags":[1073,4478,4564,4479,4480],"yoast_head":"\n
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