JDM G-Shocks and Why Multiband 6 Represents Japanese Fidelity to Time

I melt when I see JDM G-Shocks

I was never a watch guy. Never cared about brands, whether quartz or mechanical, features, looks, much less price. But all that changed when I wanted to get a replacement for my failing mediocre Fossil in the days leading up to the wedding day. Was a great time to get a new one but when pops knew, he offered to give me the Tag Heuer he got as an award for his length of service at work. Sure, it's a Tag -- so why not ? But I figured something else. That was when I noticed he still sports the generic Seiko diver he got, I think, since his first year of employment -- and you can only imagine its mileage.

Seiko. I did a quick Google search about it and came across SeiyaJapan and the amazing story behind one man's Grand Seiko. I have gone gaga about JDM watches since then. Anything "Made in Japan" and "Sold in Japan" is top quality. I knew I wanted to only wear one watch for a long time hoping I could pass it on to my son and give some backstory. Fast forward, I got myself my first JDM G-Shock -- the GW-M5610LG-8JF. I purchased it directly from TIP-TOP Rakuten (they are, unfortunately, no longer available) and arrived in the mail, via JP Post EMS, a week after ordering. I love it. Thing has Multiband 6 and can receive time calibration signals daily between 1:00am to 4:00am from 6 known atomic clock towers -- just to correct itself. WOW.

Multiband 6 to me was just a "nice to have," a welcome addition to the rare square's already-long list of features. When I got to experience Japan longer than 3D2N -- unlike last time -- I realized why every watch needs to tell the exact time, all the time! Because everything here is on-time and ON.THE.DOT. from local to intercity trains, to Shinkansens, to flights, to night or day buses, to... everything! Where I'm from, it's kind of OK to be late (sometimes). But NEVER in Nippon! Time is worth more than gold here. I think I can correlate Time with The Land of the Rising Sun now -- and why they work together in harmony -- because we could never tell time correctly if the sun only set.