Here’s a confession most of us won’t make out loud: we likely check our phones more than we check our watches. A text lands, a calendar alert chirps, and suddenly the thing that’s supposed to keep us connected is dictating how we spend our time. G-SHOCK built its name on watches that do more. More functions, more modes, more toughness than most people will ever need. So it’s a genuinely surprising move that the GMC2500 does less. On purpose.

The new, analog GMC2500 sets digital technology aside entirely. There’s no LCD tucked into the dial and, for the first time in the “Basic” lineup, no digital display at all. There isn’t even an alarm. What’s left is the most fundamental thing a watch can do: show time passing. A small-seconds hand ticking around its own subdial, a minute hand inching forward, an hour hand you’d swear isn’t moving until it has.

G-SHOCK calls the concept “Depth in Shadow ,” and it shows up in the details. The case traces its roots to the DW5000C, the original G-SHOCK.…