Casio's New G-shock Nano Fits On Your Finger - Here's How And When You Can Buy One

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Casio has unveiled a caller type of its finger-sized watch.
• The G-Shock Nano will debut successful Japan first earlier coming to nan US.
• The watch will costs $110.

If you missed retired connected Casio's finger-sized G-Shock ringing watch that debuted past year and quickly sold out, you mightiness person different chance to snag 1 soon -- and this 1 comes pinch an upgrade that makes it usable for a batch much people. 

Casio has announced a caller version of its ringing watch: The G-Shock Nano 5600 Series is based connected nan classical DW-5600 exemplary (the earlier 1 was based connected nan all-metal GMW-B5000). At first glance, this mightiness look for illustration a smart ringing successful a retro package; however, it's virtually a integer watch scaled down 1/10 to digit size. It doesn't person fitness tracking, heart complaint monitoring, aliases immoderate different smart feature. 

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Like past year's launch, this caller ringing watch is debuting first successful Japan. According to nan charismatic tract for nan watch, nan value is $110, and nan merchandise day is sometime successful November of this year. It comes successful 3 colors: black, yellow, and red. You tin motion up to beryllium notified erstwhile income spell live. 

Casio says this watch carries complete immoderate of nan aforesaid features arsenic accepted G-Shock watches. It is airtight, water-resistant to astir 200 meters, and has a replaceable battery. The six-digit show shows hours, minutes, and seconds, and besides shows nan stopwatch, dual-time, and auto-calendar features. It has flashing lights that illuminate astatine a group clip aliases astatine nan apical of each hr and an LED backlight. It comes pinch its ain show stand, nan merchandise page explained, and typical packaging.

The 3 broadside buttons aren't simply decorative; they alteration you to move modes, move connected nan light, and execute different functions.

Casio says nan G-Shock Nano has been "meticulously recreated" from its inspiration type and has nan aforesaid stainless alloy buttons, buckle, and lawsuit back. If needed, you tin set nan set pinch nan set holes conscionable for illustration a regular watch from astir 48 to 82mm. This is simply a large upgrade from nan erstwhile version, which looked for illustration it had a linked band, but was disposable successful only 1 ringing size -- 10.5.