#Watches

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Video thumbnail — G-Shock: Original 1983 Television Commercial
Fashion 1983–present

G-Shock & Baby-G Watches

Casio's G-Shock (first released in 1983) was the chunky, rugged, shock-resistant digital watch built to survive drops and abuse. The smaller, more colorful Baby-G line (launched 1994) targeted a younger audience and helped make the watches a 1990s fashion staple—big plastic bodies, digital displays, and durability marketing turned them into schoolyard status accessories.

Video thumbnail — 1993 Timex Indiglo Watch "Nighttime will never be the same" TV Commercial
Tech 1992–1999 peak

Timex Indiglo

The button under the covers: that eerie greenish-blue glow that lit the entire watch face at once. Timex Indiglo wasn't just a backlight — it was a gadget inside a watch, and every kid with one pressed it obsessively in the dark.