I am wearing the same watch that I mentioned in my post two years ago this month. My casio g-shock still looks real nice, still holds its solar charge, and still keeps atomic time. I continue to get nice compliments on it, and I cant believe the watch is over two years old.
My brother has had the same watch as I, for four months longer. Niether of us is that gentle on our watches, and used to go through timexes like a bag of candy.
I do wish some manufacture would make a nice, snazzy digital watch with a leather band for nicer occassions. I wore analog watches for 10 years, and got burned out on them, and now prefer digital. Unfortunatly, majority of the digitals have plastic bands, and look crappy.