G-Shock Adds a Futuristic Twist to the Full Metal Collection with GMW-B5000TVA-1 “Titanium Virtual Armor”
Few if any digital watches have achieved as much collector renown as the Full Metal collection by G-Shock. Since its launch in 2018, the model has garnered a substantial fan base and expanded to become a full-fledged design family, with many different color and material options, within the larger G-Shock portfolio. This year alone has seen the release of special purple- and multi-colored editions, on the heels of previous models like the crimson-colored ?Red Ion,? which we went hands-on with this past summer (you can read a review of it here).
Now G-Shock returns to the Full Metal to offer up one of its most avant-garde iterations to date. The new GMW-B5000TVA-1, aka the ?Titanium Virtual Armor,? is designed with science fiction and futuristic styles in in mind, drawing its foremost ?inspiration from powered armor and virtual reality,? according to the brand. Primarily, the watch’s striking matte-black, red-accented aesthetic appears to be derived from robotic animé characters popular in G-Shock?s native Japan, a genre known as Mecha and best known, at least in the U.S., via the Gundam series.
At a first glance, the watch appears to be a fresh-faced titanium-cased take on the increasingly familiar Full Metal base design, itself inspired by the original DW5000C design from 1983, now famous as the first-ever G-Shock. As such, the watch is in many ways typically and traditionally G-Shock, with a high-tech digital display and an overall tough-looking and to...
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