It's not a G-Shock, but wow does it look handsomely designed. I remembered seeing this model for the first time in 1985, when I ended up buying my DW-2000. The titanium case TW-7000 was way out of my price range, costing over $100. In retrospect, I should have bought it then... in addition to the DW-2000, and watch budget be damned. I could skip a couple of nights out to fund it. But alas, I didn't. And then I forgot about it for quite some time. Later, when I revived my interest in G-Shock watches, I took notice of this watch again. Unfortunately, their resale value has scaled up relative to other vintage CASIO watches, though not as bad as the Wide Temp and other very obscure low production models.
Bidding often goes quite a bit over $100 when these pop-up on that auction site, the most recent I spied finishing at $180 to some buyer in Spain (who'd be facing a hefty shipping charge too). I nabbed this rather used example for a very cheap price, because it wasn't working and has plenty of small scratches from use. The reason why it was non-functional was because some careless person misplaced the battery clip and substituted one that didn't work right. The seller had bought this in an estate sale and could get the watch to activate only temporarily. Although 548 modules aren't easy to find, they were installed in a number of older CASIO models and can occasionally be found for sale in beat up watch cases. Since the casing of this TW-7000 didn't look too bad, I figured if I won it that later on I'd eventually be able to get a donor 548 module sometime down the road.
Well, as luck would have it, the module was fine and I was able to modify the supplied incorrect clip, coaxing it to work as a surrogate with success. The watch came to life and works well! I even time adjusted it and it's looking like it'll be +2 sec/mo accurate. I'll eventually have to do a review of this watch and go into more detail about it and the 548 module. In the meanwhile, here are some photos to give you some idea about what the watch looks like. Note that the case has "TITANIUM" prominently imprinted upon it (as titanium watches weren't common then, so companies had to boast about it), while the band is actually stainless steel (yet fairly light weight and comfortable--I got lucky that it was sized perfectly for my wrist). It's also a screw back case, and the backing has "titanium" imprinted upon it as well.
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Bidding often goes quite a bit over $100 when these pop-up on that auction site, the most recent I spied finishing at $180 to some buyer in Spain (who'd be facing a hefty shipping charge too). I nabbed this rather used example for a very cheap price, because it wasn't working and has plenty of small scratches from use. The reason why it was non-functional was because some careless person misplaced the battery clip and substituted one that didn't work right. The seller had bought this in an estate sale and could get the watch to activate only temporarily. Although 548 modules aren't easy to find, they were installed in a number of older CASIO models and can occasionally be found for sale in beat up watch cases. Since the casing of this TW-7000 didn't look too bad, I figured if I won it that later on I'd eventually be able to get a donor 548 module sometime down the road.
Well, as luck would have it, the module was fine and I was able to modify the supplied incorrect clip, coaxing it to work as a surrogate with success. The watch came to life and works well! I even time adjusted it and it's looking like it'll be +2 sec/mo accurate. I'll eventually have to do a review of this watch and go into more detail about it and the 548 module. In the meanwhile, here are some photos to give you some idea about what the watch looks like. Note that the case has "TITANIUM" prominently imprinted upon it (as titanium watches weren't common then, so companies had to boast about it), while the band is actually stainless steel (yet fairly light weight and comfortable--I got lucky that it was sized perfectly for my wrist). It's also a screw back case, and the backing has "titanium" imprinted upon it as well.
