I don't understand how these watches are getting 5 star reviews.  My wife bought me this watch as a gift for graduating nursing school.  She figured I'd be banging it around at work and getting blood and guts and all that other good stuff on it, so the woman at Macy's recommended a G-Shock watch.  At first glance I liked it. It's unique and looks very durable.  But then I noticed that the digital display is hard to read.  It's white numbers on a black background, but you almost have to rotate your wrist around to read it (they make it look very easy to read the digital display in all of the pictures on the internet, but it is not even close to that easy to read, don't let the pictures fool you).  So basically, since it doesn't have an analog second hand, I would have to use that digital second hand to take pulses and it just won't cut it.  So you're thinking, doesn't it come with an LED light?  Well, yes, it does.  But that LED light (orange color) is VERY weak.  It doesn't light up the digital part at all, and it BARELY lights up the analog hands.  This will not help me in dimly lit hospital rooms. The cool feature about the LED light is that it has a setting to automatically turn on when you turn your wrist.  But the light is so weak, it really doesn't help.  If it has an indiglo type lighting, this watch would be awesome for me.  So, I thought, maybe it's this one particular G-shock watch.  Well, it's not.  I went back to Macy's where we purchased it and went through at least 5.  Finally I bought another one.  Same one, but red faced instead of gold.  It still has the same weak orange LED light, but it was a bit easier to read because the numbers are black on a white background.  I'm still debating keeping it at this point.  I'm really trying to like the watch, but finding it hard to.

UPDATE:
People who aren't finding this review helpful either have a G-Shock and are in denial, or work for the Seller.  The watch is highly over-rated.  I ended up taking the second one back also.  If you don't believe me that they're hard to read the time, go to [...] and search for the G-shock model watch that you are interested in buying.  There will most likely be a review and you can see the watch for yourself. The proof is in the pudding.