Both of these 2100 series G-Shock watches come from the factory with strap adapters and fabric bands, but each with a different fabric. The GAB2100CT has Eco-Cotton while the GA2100BCE has Cordura.
So if I had to pick between the G-Shock GA2100-BCE and the GAB2100CT, which would I choose? That’s the subject of my YouTube video which is another installment of my video series “One stays, one Goes.” Take a watch!
Listen, there’s a lot of YouTube watch reviewers out there. They talk about how pretty a watch is from their clean table top in a nice air-conditioned room. That isn’t me. I run my G-Shocks through the gauntlet of brutal vocational tests in the West Texas oil field.
My tests aren’t about how pretty a watch is! I ask how tough is this watch?
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Anyways the GAB2100CT is really pretty. That’s why I bought it. My head said no but my heart said yes. It has this beautiful mushroom gravy brown color. And you know me and mushroom gravy. I like it.
The band on the GAB2100CT is this Eco-Cotton. Normally I don’t like Eco-anything. The whole premise is dumb. Some marketing department is saying something is better for the environment. Ok, is it really? Usually not.
Futhermore Eco versions of thing are inferior. Take for example something I have to deal with every day: Ultra-Low Sulpher Diesel. Regular diesel was so much better!
But the cotton band on the GAB2100CT actually looks really good. And as much as I rip on Eco things, it is nice to know that the band has natural dyes. On the GAB2100-CT they used tea to give the band its beige color.
And that color goes nicely with denim!
Plus there’s metal rivets, which look nice but only lasted a week.
Now lets talk about the GA2100BCE and it’s Cordura band. I knew it was going to be better since Cordura is nylon, and nylon is a petroleum product. But what I wasn’t prepared for was how much better it was to the cotton band.
It blew me away!
I got used to my sweat making the Eco-Cotton band soggy. Then I try the cordura band and WOW it stays crisp and it dries really quick.
So the GA2100BCE stays and the GAB2100CT goes.
But it won’t go away quickly. I’ll keep it around to do a few more videos and blog posts. So stay tuned!