{"id":886590,"date":"2026-09-07T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886590\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:06:11","slug":"leaked-photos-of-g-shocks-100-answer-to-the-30k-patek-philippe-nautilus-have-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886590\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Photos of G-Shock’s \u00a3100 Answer to the \u00a330k Patek Philippe Nautilus Have Landed"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story originally appeared in About Time<\/a>, Esquire’s free weekly newsletter dedicated to the world of luxury watches. To get it free into your inbox every Sunday at 8am, sign up here<\/a><\/p>\n

Calamity at Casio on Thursday, when a major new watch due for release in November made its debut rather earlier than intended. Esquire had been briefed on G-Shock\u2019s new 2500 family several weeks ago, before images and reference numbers for nine models escaped online this week.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s unusual is that it\u2019s fully analogue, still something of a rarity for G-Shock. More surprising is the price: the resin GAC-2500 comes in four colours, has 200m water resistance and is expected to start at under \u00a3100.<\/p>\n

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Casio.<\/p>\n

The other headline: the rounded case and broad shoulders unambiguously recall the Patek Philippe Nautilus, something the brand says it plans to lean into rather cheekily (an amusing idea for a launch party was discussed).<\/p>\n

Here Casio has form: its \u201cCasioak<\/a>\u201d, for the uninitiated, is a phenomenally successful eight-sided analogue-digital G-Shock, nicknamed for its resemblance to the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. So what are we calling this one, then? The Casionaut? The Casiotilus? Surely it must be: the Naughtyless.<\/p>\n

While you’re here, check out our deep dive into the rise of affordable watch brand Casio<\/a>. We headed to the company’s headquarters in Tokyo and the manufacture in Yamagata Prefecture, speaking to some of the key figures behind the fast-growing watchmaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story originally appeared in About Time, Esquire’s free weekly newsletter dedicated to the world of luxury watches.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,782,307512,784,237154,783,307511,273948,61],"class_list":["post-886590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-32a8b0ae-509e-4707-8717-cc6c18744b20","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-leaked-photos-of-g-shocks-100-answer-to-the-30k-patek-philippe-nautilus-have-landed","tag-sponsored-false","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}