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Well, here’s something you don’t see every day.

Michael Wolfensohn, originally from Tiblisi, Georgia, is an Israeli software professional whose passions include design, fashion, motorcycles and watches. Last year, Wolfensohn fell in love with the full-metal G-Shock GMW-B5000D-1, but couldn’t get his hands on one when they immediately sold out. Undeterred, he decided to make his own, fashioning a hybrid watch out of a resin DW5600E-1V and replicating the case and bezel in stainless steel.

But Wolfensohn didn’t stop there. Deciding he wanted a mechanical movement inside his new G-Shock project watch, Wolfesohn had to redesign the new metal case to fit a Swiss-made ETA 2824-2.
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