{"id":37758,"date":"2017-10-03T09:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T08:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=37758"},"modified":"2017-10-30T14:28:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:28:07","slug":"g-shock-gravitymaster-survives-unprotected-trip-space-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/g-shock-gravitymaster-survives-unprotected-trip-space-back\/","title":{"rendered":"G-Shock Gravitymaster survives unprotected trip into space and back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>G-Shock has proved its latest GPW-2000 Gravitymaster can survive extreme conditions by sending it into the stratosphere attached to a meteorological flight balloon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The watch took off from Yorkshire, reaching the near zero gravity conditions at 44.1km above earth where the temperature was recorded at\u00a0-58C.<\/p>\n<p>The watch survived 82 minutes in space before returning to earth. As a final test of the watch\u2019s ruggedness, the last leg of its mission was a 65kph free-fall to earth from a height of 123m.<\/p>\n<p>On board HD cameras captured every moment of the G-Shock\u2019s flight.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"G-SHOCK In Space\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EbKGMstv24M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the watch\u2019s journey into space, Tim Gould, deputy managing Director of Casio UK, said, \u201cG-Shock was born from a desire to create the world\u2019s first unbreakable watch, that could resist gravity, magnetic fields, extreme high and low temperatures and the highest of g-forces. We\u2019re proud this mission into space has once again proved that these watches are the toughest on earth, able to survive and operate in the harshest conditions known to mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The G-Shock GPW-2000 Gravitymaster is\u00a0part of the company&#8217;s line of shock-resistant watches featuring\u00a0a Connected Engine 3-way Time Sync System that uses either GPS, radio waves or smartphone pairing to accurately tell the time anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G-Shock has proved its latest GPW-2000 Gravitymaster can survive extreme conditions by sending it into the stratosphere attached to a meteorological flight balloon. The watch took off from Yorkshire, reaching the near zero gravity conditions at 44.1km above earth where the temperature was recorded at\u00a0-58C. The watch survived 82 minutes in space before returning to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[7039,2,3],"tags":[103,438,10066],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37758"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=37758"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=37758"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=37758"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=37758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}