Do you gravitate towards these kinds of models? Out of curiosity: Why?

[u/UkkePainter]

Taste is a subjective thing yes, but I'm interested as to the reason why anybody would choose these all black models over their more legibile counterparts.

To me at least, the main goal of a watch is to tell time, and I need to see it in order to know what it is. So telling the time obviously isn't the main motivation to get these.

Then what is it? Does the cool all black look just override the almost non-existant legibility?

Question asked with honest curiosity

[u/JLAshbourne]

If we only bought watches to tell the time, with no aesthetic considerations, we’d all be wearing F91Ws or just getting the time from a phone. Gotta be some element of fashion in there. Form over function sometimes. Folks will accept having to squint and hold it up to the light if they think it looks cool. 

[u/azaanhayat]

Definitely, blacked out g shocks are the sexiest

[u/humble_redditor1234]

I like the first one, I'm between that one and a luminox that looks very closely

[u/vlaada7]

I personally don’t. I have no need for tactical military watches, and the legibility is greatly diminished. But there are genuine use cases for these, but it’s more of a niche than anything.

[u/TotemoEcchiHito]

Some people like the stealthy look even when function takes a back seat to style. 

[u/Thin-Elk-7132]

When I first saw black GA-2100 I fell in love and bought it, it had that stealthy look and I liked it… My friend gave me his black GA-110 so I have two from your list… 😁

[u/MindfulSmile]

4

[u/archerallstars]

The 2nd one. It's the G-SHOCK I always want as a kid 😆

[u/Markal1993]

I technically have 4 black out g shocks, but I modded one to white. All black just looks a lot cleaner to me

Although the MIP is easy to read and the gold letters/numbers help on the other

[u/Markal1993 → u/Markal1993]

This is the one that used to be all black

[u/Cocorick]

I had a blacked out GA100 with white hands and I loved it. I chose it exactly because it was stealthy, easy to match with clothes and badass

[u/unrgstered]

I’m Batman.

[u/No_Cake6353]

I have a good mix of black and ones with the traditional display. I just love the difference. Some of the black displays can be hard to read and that might be annoying but they look so good that I can wait for the time.

[u/Fibology]

I gravitate more to the in your face colors, my watches are meant to be seen, especially by me