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Every certified watch guy's gotta start somewhere. For many, it's with a G-Shock. This week, we're giving the official Esquire Endorsement to the DW5600, the spiritual successor to the first G-Shock of all. For just $65, it delivers vintage good looks along with the tough-as-nails build for which the brand is famous. Sure, it's digital, which means no mechanical movement. But as any collector will tell you, when it comes to watches, a great story is just as important as springs and screws. And G-Shock has a damn good story. Check out Eric Francisco's writeup to read all about it. – Jonathan Evans, style director
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Forty years after the release of the first model, the DW5600 is still built to take years of wear and abuse. |
It all started with a slap shot. In 1983, at the tail end of the quartz crisis that saw the mechanical-watch industry go into free fall, Japanese electronics brand Casio—with its lead designer, Kikuo Ibe—released the first-ever G-Shock. While not the first tool watch in history, the original G-Shock was an innovator in that it took something as delicate as a watch and packaged it in a silhouette built to withstand anything. Literally anything. Even a hockey player's slap shot, per the brand's iconic television commercial. G-Shock's modernized DW5600 is a piece that Esquire enthusiastically signs off on given how it functions in all the ways you want a good watch to work and looks great for just about any casual affair. You might not wear it to a wedding, but you won't be late for the ceremony if you've got a G-Shock on hand. |
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As Keanu Reeves embarks on the promotional tour for his newest movie, Good Fortune, which opens wide October 17, the actor is reflecting on the good fortune that was his seminal 1999 blockbuster, The Matrix, written and directed by the Wachowskis. In an exclusive roundtable interview hosted by Esquire, Reeves was joined his fellow Good Fortune collaborators Seth Rogen, Keke Palmer, and Aziz Ansari, the latter of whom wrote, starred in, produced, and directed the new movie. A comedy with elements of magical realism, Good Fortune follows a guardian angel (Reeves) who tries to convince a down-on-his-luck gig worker (Ansari) that money isn't everything by switching his life with that of a self-made millionaire (Rogen). Palmer costars as Elena, an idealistic young woman who befriends Ansari's male protagonist as she unionizes her fellow employees at a hardware store. After an extended chat about shooting at a shady Denny's in L.A. and guardian angels, Palmer posed a question to Reeves about the making of The Matrix, asking him if he knew it would be a hit from the start. Reeves responded, "No idea." |
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David Rysdahl has me cornered. I'm playing chess with the Alien: Earth actor in Brooklyn's Prospect Park (his idea), and his rook is staring down my king from across the board. "On Chess.com, I'm in the top 90 percent. But there's probably five-year-olds who are playing better than me," Rysdahl says before moving another piece. "Okay, that's check." Rats. Check already? Rysdahl is very good at this game. He stays humble by not naming the specific gambits or defenses he's pulling off, though I'm sure he's working through some highbrow stuff—even to beat a novice like me who makes one mistake after another. "Yeah, it's not a normal opening," he says, encouraging me after I move my first piece. Later, he remarks: "See, another bold move that I would never see coming." I'll take the compliment. (Or the sly trash talk.) This game is full of surprises, just like Rysdahl. |
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