Whenever I see the words ?two-tone? come screaming across my inbox I wince just a little bit. I feel like for as long as I?ve been interested in watches, people have been trying to tell me that two-tone is coming back. Sometimes I?ve wondered if there are people in the industry whose entire job is to publicly speculate on the status of two-tone among the larger watch collecting set. I tend to think that there?s so much conversation about whether or not it?s coming back, nobody would even notice if it arrived. So that?s the headspace I was in when I glanced at the latest press release from G-SHOCK, which heralded the arrival of the Two-Tone Utility Color Series. 

It turns out that these watches aren?t really what you?d normally think of in a two-tone conversation. They are quite literally multi-toned, meaning they incorporate both the traditional black resin cases found across the G-SHOCK line with brown integrated straps (with dial accents in complementary shades of green and yellow, for the most part). So two-tone, in your grandpa?s Datejust sense of the term, is a misnomer here. Digging further into the press release, though, I found another buzzword heard less often in the watch community: ?Gorpcore?. 
Just for the hell of it, I decided to apply some statistical analysis here to see if gorpcore in the watch world is something I?ve simply missed out on. I searched for the term in my email, and retrieved exactly two hits. The first, of course, was the press release ...