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Kikuo Ibe shares his personal take on 35 years of G-SHOCK design and shows no signs of slowing down.

Today on Watchonista, we sit down with the mastermind behind the Casio G-SHOCK, Mr. Kikuo Ibe. As the inventor of one of the world's most popular watch collections, Ibe had some wonderful stories to share.

Hyla Bauer: How did the G-SHOCK come into being? What was your inspiration for designing the watch?

Kikuo Ibe: When I started at Casio, I wore a watch, but it was not a Casio watch.

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The watch was a special gift from my father. And one day, I dropped the watch to the floor, and the watch was destroyed entirely. And that's the reason why I started to develop a watch that would never break. I wanted to make the strongest watch in the world.

I wanted to wear the concept of what I had imagined.
 

HB: Was your father’s watch a classic des