![]() ![]() By then Casio had sold 19 million G-Shocks worldwide. By 1998 Casio released over 200 G-Shock models. The popularity of G-Shocks increased throughout the 1990s. Casio released the G-Shock in April 1983, to fill the demand for durable watches. The shock resistant design has 10 layers protecting the quartz timekeeping module, including a rubber bumper, the case, the hardened mineral glass watch crystal, the stainless steel screwed down caseback, and the 'floating module' where the quartz mechanism floats free in a urethane foam cradle, with the outer buttons and LCD module attached with flexible cables. ![]() The DW-6600 is also featured in the 2014 film American Sniper starring Bradley Cooper, based on the life of. It’s common knowledge that the DW-6600 was issued to Navy SEALs in recent times and these photos are evidence of that. It had a 10-year battery life, water resistance to 10 bar and was able to survive a 10 meter fall onto a hard surface (he tested 200 prototypes by dropping them from rooftops or third story windows). Navy SEALs Website offers many public domain promotional photos, some featuring Navy SEALs wearing the Casio G-Shock DW-6600 watch during training.
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