After spending serious time recently with a feature-packed Mudmaster, I’ll admit it’s kind of refreshing to see Casio pulling things in the opposite direction. The brand has just announced the Black and Electro Green Collection, a five-model release spanning the GD010, GA700, GA100, GAB2100, and GAB010. Each watch shares the same visual treatment: a matte black case, band, and dial paired with vivid green accents and green-tinted LCD touches. Pricing runs from $110 for the GA700BEG-1A and GD010BEG-1 up to $180 for the GAB010BEG-1A, with everything available now through G-SHOCK.
For anyone who has followed G-SHOCK over the years, this kind of coordinated colorway drop isn’t new territory. Casio has long used color treatments to keep its core lineup fresh without altering the underlying watches, and the black-and-green pairing in particular has shown up in various forms across the brand’s history. The Electro Green positioning here feels less like a heritage callback and more like a contemporary styling exercise, leaning into the design-forward direction G-SHOCK has cultivated through its more recent releases.
What stands out at first glance is how restrained the green actually is. Based on the press images, the accents are concentrated in dial text, secondary markings, and the LCD overlay, with the bezel and strap staying fully blacked out. That’s a different approach than some of the louder green G-SHOCKs we’ve seen historically, where the color dominated the case or strap. Personally, I think the dialed-back execution works in this collection’s favor. There’s a stripped-down tactical look at play here, and it lands on the right side of cool without veering into the cheesy operator-core territory G-SHOCK colorways sometimes drift into.
The technical punch list is exactly what you’d expect from current G-SHOCK production. Each model carries the shock-resistant structure, 200 meters of water resistance, world time, a stopwatch, countdown timer, and five daily alarms. The GA100 retains its 1/1000-second stopwatch, and the two analog-digital hybrids in the lineup, the GAB2100BEG-1A and GAB010BEG-1A, get smartphone link functionality. Nothing here is a surprise, but that’s also the point. These are existing platforms in a new finish, and the basics are handled.
The bigger question is whether five simultaneous colorway variants across different case architectures actually adds up to a coherent collection or just a coordinated marketing moment. The GD010 and the GAB2100 are very different watches aimed at different buyers, and unifying them under a single visual theme is a familiar G-SHOCK move that sometimes lands and sometimes feels like catalog filler. Without time on the wrist, I can’t say which of these executions translates best, though the GAB2100BEG-1A is the one I’d be most curious to handle in person given how popular that case shape has become.
For $110 to $180, none of these are difficult buy-ins, and the black-and-green combination is the kind of thing that tends to either click immediately or not at all. After coming off a watch as feature-dense as the Mudmaster, there’s something appealing about a G-SHOCK that just commits to looking good and doing the basics well. I’ll be curious to see which of these five gets picked up most by the community (I suspect it’ll be the “CasiOak”), and whether “Electro Green” shows up on any other references down the line.
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Michael Peñate is an American writer, photographer, and podcaster based in Seattle, Washington. His work typically focuses on the passage of time and the tools we use to connect with that very journey. From aviation to music and travel, his interests span a multitude of disciplines that often intersect with the world of watches – and the obsessive culture behind collecting them.