Well, I recently just bough a new Gshock, since my previous one finally died, I bought it when I was a boot seaman almost 13 years ago, and it lasted through Navy Dive School, duty on submarine, flight school, and getting bashed all over the place. I went browsing around while in Japan, and they had a case with HUNDREDS of Gshocks, blew me away. I had gone for a week without a watch, and it was driving me crazy, the difficulty of doing time zone conversions to ZULU and figuring out your perdiem is a bit much for this P3 pilot.... I opted for the all metal G3101 (no, I do NOT know that number off the top of my head, had to read it off the back).... I have had it for a month, and have been very happy with it. I personally want a secondary time zone (which I put to ZULU), multiple alarms, and have it light up, that will do it for me. It is a big watch, but it still takes everything you can throw at it, and keeps on going, plus, it doesnt cost as much as the OMEGAs and BREITLINGs some of my friends are sporting.