The most expensive square
By Kenji Watanabe, Osaka ยท
MR-G is the top of the G-Shock family, built at Casio's Yamagata factory with a great deal of hand polishing. The MRG-B5000 takes the 1983 square and treats it like a luxury watch: titanium case and bracelet, sapphire, polished surfaces, and Module 3483 with solar, radio sync, Bluetooth and world time.
I find it fascinating, and I am not sure I would buy it.
The case is 49.4 by 12.9 mm, so it wears like the steel and titanium B5000s. The extra money, 3,600 to 4,000 dollars, goes into finishing and materials. Seen in person, the polishing is impressive. But the display and functions are almost the same as the 1,200-dollar titanium model, and the LCD is still the LCD.
For a G-Shock collector who wants the summit, it makes sense. For anyone else, I would point at a Grand Seiko 9F quartz for similar money. It is a very different watch, I admit, but it has more to look at.