A wire cage runs across the face of Action Bronson’s new G-Shock, and that’s the first thing you see. Bronson introduced the watch himself this morning, posting an 18-photo set shot on a working boat: green long-sleeve, orange fishing bibs, and a DW-6900 in screaming yellow on his wrist.
The watch is the Baklava Technical Institute of Marine Sciences, the second G-Shock built with Bronson’s Baklava label.
Baklava x G-SHOCK DW-6900 Baklava Technical Institute of Marine Sciences
DW-6900 base with black wire bull bars · Yellow resin bezel over a lime-green gradient dial · Shock resistant · 200-meter water resistance
Price: Not announced yet
Where to buy: More details at Specializing in Life
The first one, last year’s Desert King, sold out. Baklava first showed this watch in October, in a first-look post that named it and stopped there. No date, no price, only photos of the finished watch. This morning’s post finished the announcement, which is why the drop is two days out instead of someday.
Yellow bezel, lime face, black wire
The bezel is yellow resin, chunky in the standard 6900 way, and the face under it runs lime green, with the three round Triple Graph dials picked out in dark green and black. A tinted display sits across the middle. Nothing on this watch is trying to blend in, and the color combo reads like dive gear left out in the sun.
Black wire bull bars cross the glass. They’re a protector first and a look second: the wires take the knock before the crystal does, and Casio has put a bezel protector on the 6900 line before, back in 1996. On a watch this loud, the black wire is also the one piece of contrast that keeps the yellow in check.
The strap is dark green nylon fabric on black resin connectors, and the front G button is black too.
It’s a cloth strap on a resin case, so the whole watch stays light. The green is the one quiet color in the set.
The dial treatment goes further in the first-look photos: the face fades from yellow-green to white, and the markers around it run red, orange, yellow and green, numbered like a lab instrument. It’s a lot of color for a tool watch, and it works because the case shape underneath is the one everybody already knows.
The DW-6900 under the paint
Strip the colors back and this is the DW-6900 Casio has sold since 1995. The round case and the three-dial Triple Graph face made it the bigger, louder brother of the square 5600, and Casio credits the original with the first EL backlight in the line. Collectors have treated it as a collab canvas ever since.
The function set is the standard 6900 kit: a stopwatch, a countdown timer, a multifunction alarm and hourly time signals, with shock resistance and 200 meters of water resistance.
No smart features, no sensors. We covered the camo version in October, and the formula hasn’t moved.
Round two for Baklava and G-Shock
Baklava’s first G-Shock, the GA2100AB25-5A Desert King, landed in August 2025 at $200. That one went archaeology: tan resin, a globe-grid dial, and wire bull bars over the face. The bull bars were the talking point then too. It sold through Baklava’s shop and Casio’s US store, and Casio’s collaboration archive now lists it as sold out.
This one swaps the desert for the water.
The name is a fake institute, the photos put Bronson on a working boat in fishing bibs, and the caption under his post talks about respect and preservation for aquatic life. Photographer Brandon Bair shot the set, and the watch is the brightest thing in every frame.
Bronson runs Baklava as his own label, clothes first, and his collabs tend to sell on the strength of the photos alone. This set is all boat work, no studio renders, shot on the water in daylight, and the watch gets worn like equipment, which is the correct way to sell a G-Shock.
Baklava x G-SHOCK DW-6900 Baklava Technical Institute of Marine Sciences
Limited collaboration, the second Baklava x G-SHOCK model · Cloth strap on a resin case · 200-meter water resistance
Price: Not announced yet
Where to buy: More details at Specializing in Life
Friday, 11 AM, one shop
Bronson’s post lays out the whole release plan: the watch is available only on the Specializing in Life website, Friday, November 13 at 11 AM Eastern. No price has been posted, and there’s no Casio store listing for it yet. If the Desert King pattern holds, the price lands with the drop and the stock doesn’t sit around.
One more thing to know before Friday: collabs like this one rarely restock.
The Desert King sold out in its August run and Casio’s archive still lists it that way. Nothing in this week’s posts points to a second wave. When the page sells through, resale is the only route left.
The DW-6900 has been the people’s G-Shock for thirty years, and this is the loudest version of it anyone has made. Buy it for the color and the cage, and the watch underneath will outlast the joke.
