Photographs by Masanori Yoshie
Text by Yuto Hosoda?Chronos Japan?

Released in this spring, the MRG-B5000 revives the G-SHOCK Origin DW-5000C as the latest installment in Casio?s flagship MR-G series. It already is remarkable to see the Origin appear as part of the MR-G series, what really deserves attention, however, is the new watch?s luxury finishing, which goes beyond anything in the history of the G-SHOCK to date.

G-SHOCK MRG-B5000B: The first ever MR-G model of an Origin watch, the MRG-B5000B makes its appearance as the flagship of the G-SHOCK series. As a look at the main cut at the top of this article shows, this model inherits much of the design of the original DW-5000C model. Tough solar. Ti x Cobarion + DLC (L: 49.4 mm, W: 43.2 mm, H: 12.9 mm) 200-meter water resistance (photo: Masanori Yoshie).G-SHOCK MRG-B5000D: The MRG-B5000D features a titanium carbide coating. To differentiate it from the previous all-metal G-SHOCK model GMW-B5000, it makes extensive use of satin finishing and emphasizes the sharp-angled contours of the ridges. Tough solar. Ti x Cobarion + titanium carbide. (L: 49.4 mm, W: 43.2 mm, H: 12.9 mm) 200-meter water resistance (photo: Masanori Yoshie).
With the MRG-B5000, both polishing and assembly require high levels of technical skills. For this reason, assembly is done by hand. Some of the parts in the MRG-B5000 have elaborate shapes that make them difficult to produce using press forming, so machi...