{"id":617012,"date":"2026-10-01T03:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617012\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T03:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:20:11","slug":"hands-on-g-shock-reveals-the-mrg-d5000-blue-rose-project-in-sapphire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617012\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands-On: G-SHOCK Reveals The MRG-D5000 \u201cBlue Rose Project\u201d In Sapphire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turn the watch around, and the DLC-coated Grade 5 titanium caseback features a blue sapphire insert, with all the classic caseback details engraved on it, plus that &#8220;Dream Project&#8221; tribute. On the outer rim of the titanium section, the individual number out of 20 is engraved. For G-SHOCK nerds, the new brick pattern on the rubber strap is new, and like the other MR-G models on rubber straps, this is a cut-to-size version \u00e0 la Patek Aquanaut, which means you won&#8217;t ever need to worry about strap overhang at the expense of a non-resizable strap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The excellently milled deployant clasp, however, has several points of micro-adjustment as long as you have a spring bar tool, so you should always size it with the strap fit to the middle hole of the clasp. I&#8217;d have loved to see Casio figure out toolless micro-adjustment on these clasps by now, but as someone who&#8217;s owned one of these on the strap, I find this setup to feel extremely great on the wrist and makes the watch feel significantly more fitted to you. It might be my favorite element of the MR-G design and a huge reason it feels much more luxurious on the wrist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turn the watch around, and the DLC-coated Grade 5 titanium caseback features a blue sapphire insert, with all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-617012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}