{"id":95,"date":"2013-03-12T12:12:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T12:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.235.86.90\/?p=95"},"modified":"2013-04-07T10:21:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T10:21:31","slug":"watch-finally-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/12\/watch-finally-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Review: CASIO G-Shock MTG-900-DA-8V"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"So I bought myself a waterproof G-Shock watch by CASIO and it has now finally arrived. The specific model that I purchased was the MTG 900 8V. I bought this watch specifically because I needed a basic water proof watch to enable me to time my dives. I know there are more specialised dive watches but I will purchase one when I find out exactly which one I need. With this watch, at least I can do the basics and calculate my dive time and my rest time to ensure that I have the right dive to rest ratios. I also needed a watch seeing as I accidentally put my iPhone into a glass of water so I had no way of telling time \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

So what is the MTG-900-DA like ? Its pretty dam good. The solid stainless steel finish is great, gives it a nice look that isn’t to sporty and out of place if you are wearing a suite but is also a tough as nails and can be taken pretty much anywhere. I have taken it to 20 metre depths, taken it sailing and all it needs is a bit of a rub and a rinse and its back to its new shiny self. The casio MTG-900-DA has a nice back panel light and really is just a practical watch for the sporty and active.<\/p>\n

As usual I bought the watch online. I didn’t buy it from the well know websites such as amazon or ebay but from a smaller Australian online merchant. The rationale was that if i bought it from an Australian merchant it would arrive sooner as it would be local post (2-3 days tops), however this wasn’t to be. The watch arrived almost 3 weeks later. Reason being was the merchant mentioned that they didn’t get my unit number (even though I had typed it and even wrote it in the paypal special requests). The merchant said they did not get the paypal request so I guess that was the main issue. I didn’t hear from them for about 2 weeks and thought for a local delivery this seems to be way to long so I decided to send them an email. What I found to my amazement was that the merchant website didn’t have any contact email.<\/p>\n

What I did then was try to reply back to the confirmation email that I received from them after the purchase. So I wrote them a short email only to have the email bounce back ! At this point I was beginning to feel that I had been jipped and I would never get my watch.<\/p>\n

I put on my tech hat and began to do some searching and finally traced the merchants details and sent them a message. I\u00a0received\u00a0a response and sorted out the issue. Now that I have the watch on my wrist, all is well. As usual I had to take some of the links off the watch because they \u00a0usually make it longer and to big for my wrist but after taking 3 of the links off it fits nice and \u00a0comfortably.<\/p>\n

Pretty happy with the watch, can’t wait to take it out for a test run and take some proper stats so I can improve my times …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I bought myself a waterproof G-Shock watch by CASIO and it has now finally arrived. The specific model that I purchased was the MTG 900 8V. I bought this watch specifically because I needed a basic water proof watch to enable me to time my dives. I know there are more specialised dive watches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44,45,43,42,46],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-casio","tag-mtg-900-da-8v","tag-product","tag-product-review","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}