44 Kilometer Fall From Space: Casio G-Shock GPW-2000 Watch Durability Test | aBlogtoWatch

44 Kilometer Fall From Space: Casio G-Shock GPW-2000 Watch Durability Test | aBlogtoWatch

Official Casio Video. Text from Casio:

"Blasting off from Yorkshire, the GPW-2000 GRAVITYMASTER lived up to its name as it was propelled into the stratosphere towards zero gravity using the latest NASA-approved metrological flight balloon. The G-SHOCK’s space odyssey included:

Temperatures of minus 58 degrees Celsius
Height of 44.1km above the earth (the highest ascent achieved by this type of space balloon)
25km surge past the ‘Armstrong Limit’, the outer limit of human survival before blood begins to boil
One hour and 22 minutes in space

In the contest of G-SHOCK versus g-force, the 120g timepiece, built to withstand the most extreme temperatures and conditions known to mankind, also endured:

Crushing g-forces of 3.63G
Air pressure of 0.00146bar (325,000 times less than the lowest tolerable air pressure ever recorded on Earth)
Virtually moisture-free humidity levels of 0.02%

After surviving the space time continuum, the still functioning G-SHOCK – designed to accurately keep time anywhere in the world – hurtled back to Terra Firma to complete a galactic round trip of 82.55 kilometres, taking two hours and forty-six minutes.

As a final test of the watch’s tough credentials, the last leg of its mission was a 65 kilometre per hour free-fall to earth for 123 metres – 14 metres higher than St Paul’s Cathedral in London – over 12 times the standard 10 metre drop every G-SHOCK is tested to withstand."

Important note: The watch survived the fall without any damage.

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[infiltrator]

Um... I think they forgot to show the most important part! That it still works!

[ting]

The important part was if it survived and how it runs after but that's not even covered.

[mrmichaellepp]

I always find myself tied to a weather balloon, being pulled up into space - praying that my watch will survive the inevitable fall back to earth. Thank you, Casio, for finally finding a solution to my horrible dilemma.

[BigMC]

Show the bloody watch afterwards!!! Otherwise what's the point?

[talasattila]

It doesn't matter how high you are dropping it from. It reaches terminal velocity much faster, and the impact is the same as when you throw it out from a high building

[yourobson]

I was hammering hard gravel road with a spade and my GPW-2000 on. As I expected the hours arrow was off by one or two steps. Minutes and seconds were fine. Calibration via iPhone app aligned the arrows to correct positions. Therefore the lesson for me is that it is easy to misalign step motors but the auto-correction works. I like this watch a lot.

[niocitB]

Wow! Damned this is fcking G-Shock quality

[Aashish_Ganeshan]

other watches: "please let me go home!!!! what did I ever do to you??? I have a wife and kids"

GSHOCK: TRY ME BEYATCH!!!

[drew_]

For sure, the most deliberately unsatisfying troll of a video. Great execution guys. Really, well done.

[Ssapo]

44km is way overkill. Any height to get the watch to terminal velocity would be fine. Also the end cards came in way too early in this video. Otherwise, I enjoyed it.

[madnimalek]

Casio forgot to make a camera for tgis test so....I think the watch still works but the camera doesnt

[TAHA-nccm]

I have read everyone's comment but I think that the most important part was that they had to show the working of the watch after the fall

[benefitthirteen]

What I learned about G-Shocks: cameras break when dropped from 44.1km.

[arisorais]

Im asian, and im happy they used kilometers, not miles! 😂

[ThatiMSport]

There was literally a G-Shock but sent to space before we got grand theft auto auto six

[yucatansuckaman]

You went through all the trouble to do this and dont show results?? What's that???

[arjun-kzgu]

Wow I falls from space wearing and thank god my watch will survive....yaay I'm so grateful for that....

[jancovanderwesthuizen]

The phrase "Fall from space" itself doesn't make sense

[eyadabdelfatah]

i searched youtube for "an alien falls from space" then what is this ?

[melo-uo]

would be perfect if it can transform me into aliens