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  • GW-M5610U-1BER

    Yeah, the negative displays on these look cool but they are pretty poor for legibility. Even in bright daylight they're much harder to read than the standard LCDs. The big draw of the 5610 is that they're kind of the ultimate practical watch - solar, radio sync, world time, chrono, water and shock resistant etc - so failing on the legibility front sits a bit odd with it.

  • My black/white casioak has the negative display on the subdial. Which is sort of fine as you've got hands for the main function of the watch. But I couldn't live with permanent negative display on a full digital watch.

    This is what it would look like modded:

    Which is exactly what I want.

  • What about the GW-5000U-1JF? It's a bit more expensive but looks quite like the photo you posted

  • Is that a module switch or just the display component? Is that not quite expensive to do? I would tend to agree with @rj, the GW-5000 might be what you want and even though it's a JDM model that you'd have to import it could work out not much more expensive. (Also, it's a slightly more deluxe model that has a screw down caseback like the original G-shocks did, which is why it's more expensive in the first place.)

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