Negative display is for tactical purposes. Military, spec-ops, big game or anything that requires stealth.

Received mine (tactical black) about a week ago, saw all of the complaints regarding the negative display and decided on the positive display. I personally have no issues with legibility, very happy with it overall. Would definitely recommend it to any person in a physically demanding profession or outdoorsy type like myself👍🏻

To me there is no other G Shock that has topped the GW9400 when it comes to features and functionality for the price. Nice review btw!

new SUB!!! this is my favorite watch i bought one for my deployment to Afghanistan in 2008! and still kicking ass, !!

The Rangeman 9400 is our best kept secret as people who actually use these for what they are designed for. The Rangeman is the very best G Shock ever made imo.

I think the design of this Mudman is fantastic. I also think the LCD is still appealing enough for most. The fact it doesn't have bluetooth is great. Next gen will probably be MiP, here's hoping in positive and negative guises cause even being MiP I'd still rather have a positive one. Extremely capable and excessively handsome watch!

I have the positive display 9500 and so far I'm loving it. All I heard was bad things about the negative display versions and how hard they were to read.

Thank the lord no mip as clear but slow pixels ... and that negative display awful ... best is the black positive display beautiful.. i still have a GW 9300 and honestly its brilliant 5 years ongoing

Always goes for a positive display. Yeah, the negative display is really good looking. But, reading in a low light environment. Its suck. I've learned from my experience owing a negative display G-Shock watch previously. When I bought my Mudman 9000, I chose a positive display and I'm happy with it. Anyway, thank you for the review. I'm definitely going to buy this new Mudman. Thank you so much for your efforts.

Nice review and totally agreed. I did not buy this model due to a rather faint display. Though MIP may have had issues with displaying the compass overlay. I wish they had used the STN display as metal squares and some more expensive Frogmans for higher definition, ghost free and wider view angle.

Just bought one. So much cheaper here in Hong Kong (about £200). Amazing watch, robust and functionality is good. I went for the black one with the positive display because of many comments that the negative display is a bit too hard to read.

The White model is lovely 👍

I have a Casio ae-1500wh ,paid $20.00 Cdn for it brand new and couldn't be happier. Not the tough and rugged extras the G Shocks have but for the money, its a graet little beater and looks more expensive than it is.

I’m returning my negative display model today in exchange for the positive display model! It’s disappointing when you can’t even see the time! WTF! 😢

I went with the positive display. The watch wears very well. I work 9.5-10 hrs a day as a transit operator. I bought the watch ⌚️ for its large numerical display. To replace my Casio AE1500WH-1AV which costs me a whopping $25. (Oh It looks like a G-Shock but the build quality is no where near one 😅.) The tilt display illuminator on the GW9500 is a huge plus because I drive at night and it helps not to have to fidget with the button to turn the light on. Just twist the wrist. 👍🏾

Thanks for video. Agree, it is beautiful design. And it is really a pity that did not use MIP or STN display like the ProTrek PRW-30, or PRW-35. Imagine in harsh condition like dust, mud, outdoors, etc you press light all the time cause the display is not visible enough. I will be no surprised if come out newer model GW-9510 with better display visibility.

I have the positive display version and have zero readability issues. Granted, it's a matter of preference, but given all the problems reported by so many over the years regarding the visibility of negative displays in bright & low light conditions, it surprises me that 2 of the first 3 references are negative.

If it was green with a positive display i would have bought it.

Nice review. I have never liked negative display, so I always go with the positive display. I like that the digits are larger, and since I feel that Casio wrecked the frogman, the Mudman looks to be the best option.

I really like the design. I bought the watch with a positive display and like you mention in the video. It’s a lot better. For me the watch is a Rangeman with a much bigger digital display and with the positive display in tactical black a much easier to read display. I’m not bothered about Bluetooth. I also think the alarm is louder. Ie I can hear it unlike my Rangeman watches

Great video and conclusions. This is almost a great watch. This was my favorite color, but the display legibility is poor. So I returned it and get the positive display version, and yes it's a little better. This dual layer display is more reflective. I have the GW-9400 rangeman and compared to this mudman is still one of the best. The stainless steel buttons are easy to use on the rangeman, and some functions are still better, memory,. Also I find the mudman strap is more rigid. But I hope will be better in time.

Having both positive this Mudman and Rangeman I can say that the Rangeman is more user-friendly, I am a bit disappointed with screen being too shallow.

Love the GW9500-1A4 Rescue Orange, it looks beautiful ❤

i have Casio AE-1000W , i am using it from past 13 years and still its in good condition, i have changed its battery just once, i have purchased it in 2010.😉

Great easy to watch review, I have just ordered the military green version & did have concerns about the not so great comments about the negative display but the green one just called to me & I don't know about others but I so often find my 1st choice in something is usually the one I end up choosing anyway. Besides that a few of my other watches have negative displays & I have had no problem with them as I spend a lot of time outdoors, this is a pretty big outlay for me so I hope I got it right.

Yep I agree , can't stand negative display, I have several different watches and I wear my 15 dollar Walmart watch with large grey digital display, has a nice back light. I wonder why these and other expensive watches can't understand that not being able to see the screen is a problem, dang I was excited at first, I was looking the day before at digital display watches like Casio. I have a green mudmaster, the most fancy one, with solar charging and atomic time, I wore it day and night for 6 months. So since I bought the 15 dollar Walmart watch I wear it in the shower and bath, work in it, and it still looks good, the fancy mudmaster had that small digital negative screen at bottom of dial, I never could see it, so the coolness wore off, so when I seen commercial for digital mudmaster I was excited, oh well what's with that weird compass lines, hum

Awwwwwww I want one.. Too expensive for my pocket though 😔

I received my watch this past week. The display is terrible. This video makes it seem far better than it actually is. Even under natural light indoors under natural light, it is really difficult to read. What's the point of a watch that has a dial that is difficult to read? I returned mine and will likely go for the 9500-1. Not as cool as the green, but I don't want to have to fight the negative display to read the time.

A watch that can’t perform its main function, reading the time. 9500-1 for me. Also shame it doesn’t have the instant stop watch feature of the 9400.

I'm absolutely loving this design. Having all those sensor based features while lacking smartphone functionality makes it a true survival tool. For the lower contrast inverted display, I am getting crazy ideas in my head of hydro-modding it. Which improves contrast and visibility, but in the case of MIP displays destroys the screen over time, as I learned the hard way. Such a fancy standard LCD should survive such a mod though, but it's too expensive and simply silly to do that to such an expensive watch. Still an amazing design with what seems like a very functional UI, unlike the clunky interface of MIP models after the GBD-200 (judging by comparing the manuals, I only have the functionally identical GBD-100 and GBX-100). If I had to pick a watch to depend on on treks and such, this would be the one I'd consider if I had the budget for it.

I’m team rangeman (specifically the blackout model) and it’s negative display is very cool to see at a glance, but not so easy to use. If you set the backlight to 3secs….it’s THE BEST DISPLAY in the dark using the light. But alas I want a new mudman very much so and I don’t like the color combo offerings currently from Casio. I WANT a tactical black with negative display but it’s not offered that way. Your video however, has convinced me the regular display in tactical black is the best as it offers a color discrepancy in the dual layers of the display. Very cool. Or…..I wait for some more offerings to arrive. The rangeman was so popular Casio made several special editions and color ways. Hopefully over time Casio does exactly that with this model. For now that tactical black will have to do me.

Looks nice that , can't go wrong with the green

"The thermometer I kind of disregard as it's only truly effective when it's not on your wrist". This statement always amuses me I have to say. It is like saying "the thermometer (for body temperature/fever) only works when it's under your armpit for 3-5 minutes, so not good". Or "the garden/putdorrs thermometer only truly shows the right temperature when it's in the shade and away from sun reflecting surfaces, not very useful then!". Or "the house thermometer does not work properly if I touch it, so not good!". Statements like these just show a lack of undrstanding of physics. Me on the contrary I truly appreciate the thermometer on such a watch, much more than the one on my smartwatch that need internet to get the temperature (from somewhere hopefully near to where I am). Of couse you need to take the watch off when you need the temperature dude!

I'm not going to lie, most new offerings from G Shock don't do anything for me because they're just the same watch with different aesthetics. This is more substantial, I can see this being a stalwart in the Mudman line. That being said - the negative display hurts the practicality, and that's a major ding on a practical tool watch. The regular display model is the way to go.

Another great watch but could have used some upgrades,the watch is basically unreadable during day time the time when most of the people wear watches.

Great review. I was ready to buy the Military Green, but your review was so informative. Really disappointed I have to wait for yet another new model to come out (with positive display), but that's better than a regretted purchase.

Let's hope they do a green with positive display next.

GW9400 was one of the most beautiful gshock.

This new Mudman is essentially the Rangeman 2.0, but with much better build quality.

On G shock you can set the sea level pressure manually like on Garmin or Suunto? On those watches are altimeter mode and barometer mode. I don't need the altimeter all the time. The watch is locked in barometer mode and all changes in pressure will be considered due to weather and changes in ambient pressure. This mode is best used for activities without a lot of elevation changes.

I noticed 2 things with this new Mudman. 1. This watch has Multiband6 , but it is not printed on the face of the watch. 2. This watch doesn't have the more traditional Casio screws holding the back plate on , combination phillip and slot screws. It's phillip head screws only.

Love the Red Dwarf looking tin.

I believe this is the true spiritual successor of the older protreks circa 2005🎉

ill stick with my ggb100 for now 🙌

Hi TD, i have read that the legibility of the positive display is poor when viewing inside. Some say you can hear the alarms, others (and in my experience)say they are inaudible. Any comments please. It's a shame that you don't seem to answer many questions.

Another missed oppertunity for a MIP

cool design cool feature.. one question is : did recent g shock watches has superb durability like their 90's 2000's models. mine, like gw200, dw9900 definitely still rocks over decades... 👍

Thanks for the excellent review, cool watch.

It's truly a great tool watch, but as I've suspected, Casio negative displays are an absolute catastrophe. I don't know how they're not aware of that. Or they just don't give an eff, because they're probably selling them like cupcakes.

How's the display? I generally don't like negative displays, but I like the colors of the watch.

Hope I am missing something, dose this record other info like temp and time or is it just the altitude that it records. I love the rangeman as it records this and also the stopwatch an be instantly started with the bottom right button. Great for starting before plunging into water then recording the time and temp for later.

Con una Pantalla MIP sería genial. 👏👏💪💪

I have a gbd-h2000 model that has marvelous mip negative display, but the negative display at new mudman is a comlete disaster 😢. I would prefer rescue orange with positive disp. 🤔

Just got mine today. Terrific!

Best review so far

Great review. I like the watch, but that display is extremely disappointing.

Also team gw-9400. 👋 mines Japan model. The gwg-2000 soooooo nice but so little displayed for the too big price tag.

Can't personally understand why Casio chose to go this way🤷‍♂️ Why didn't they harness the MIP-display for this🤯 Would have been a killer watch🙄 Perhaps they are thinking about GW-9600 Rangeman🤔

I have protrek solar and 12 years the battery is like new. the buttons like new . The starp is silicon so like new . The case like new. PRW 3000. Also have the newer stainless dial version fir 7 years Same thing . Both are like new. Casio solar batteries are really really durable ling life.

Bonito reloj Casio G-shock Mudman. 🤩🤩⌚️⌚️

I just think this is the best looking compass ever

liked everything except the display and the thermometer, negative displays despite the large real-estate it' hard to read. The positive display is washed out, sigh

Been looking to get one of these for a while but not sure if it would fit my wrist, would it fit on a 6.5 inch wrist?

Should of been MIP - so it’s a no from me. Anyone have an ETA until they may offer it in this?

I have been wearing my G9300, for 5 years. It's perfect for me. I paid $125 for it.

Still waiting for a PRW or G Shock with ABC, solar, multi ban, SR/SS, and lunar.

my favourite g-shock youtuber out there!

My beloved wife give me this watch as a give coz I'm a hardcore angler so this watch suit me in all weather condition and outdoor love the orange colour

Do you know what version of triple sensor this watch uses? The last upgrade that I know of is when the original Rangeman was launched.

This negative display sucks like most of the negative displays from Casio. The green doesn’t seam to have the same striking impact of other green offerings from Casio. This might be the fact the green is a little off colour or the fact that there is too much of it. It’s the black version that stands out for me

Pro Trec PG-240 + GW-9300 + GW-9400 = Mudman GW-9500, and then add it to my Mudman collection. "Positive Display"

Just buy a Chinese copy . Looks exactly the same and tells the time , avoiding Casio's stupid prices 👍

My old MM is confusing to set and dim. But still looks amazing and is bulletproof. I would buy a newer one but why? People slobber over mine…haha

Fabulous ❤ love the green !!!

Takecare not to scratch the mineral glass - cost me almost £60 to send it back for a new whole front. Customer service did not care that I had already paid big money to get the watch. I was just doing some gardening. Took almost 6 weeks to get my watch back. I will make sure that the glass face is Sapphire glasss in the future,....Disappointed to say the leasts!

UTC display doesn’t show the seconds? Can you confirm this? most of us would use this display for accuracy of measurements or synchronization of other instruments. This seems like a big miss.

Is the old Mudman GW 9300 discontinued?

Wish my skinny wrist could accommodate one of these.

the Display is very dark and not easy to read at one of the watch from gshock Mudman model (orange Version)

Does the "Army Green" really look that dark....? I'm kind of disappointed, if it was the green they used for the GW-9400-3, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

I just got mine. Came without English manual. Looking all over KZfaq for English ones or just going to use trial & error.

NOPE. I have two Muds 1000 and 2000, one Frog (analog) and a square beater (King XL). I can't do another digital, sorry. Maybe this watch can do one thing better than my other Muds and Frog, but that's fine. Gave away my Rangeman, and the MTG's just aren't my taste. I tried a ProTrek before, and hated it. I'll wait for the next Mud.

This makes me wonder if theyre going to update the Rangeman as well or just leave it as it is.

I just want a do-it-all all watch from Casio.

i wish they'd come up with an analog version of the mudman and rangeman. only frogman has analog, right?

Military themed models with negative displays are meant to be subtle for obvious military tactical purposes. Hence casio got it right.

This watch is quite obviously a complete failure due to the unreadable displays. There is absolutely no excuse for this, it is a complete failure and downgrade from previous models.

Are the buttons of this watch any softer to press compared to the previous Mudman models please?

Why oh why are are G-Shocks so difficult to read. My aging eyesight isn't so good and so many of the watches, analogue or digital are a dissapointment. I have a GA B2100 Yellow Casioak, that's great, would be better if the digital display was a little bit bigger though!😂

When is the new RANGEMAN coming out can't wait for that.

Is it waterproof if so what depth

Is it really that bad with the inverse display? Share your opinion.

I like g shock ❤

Saya berharap setelah ini anda akan memberikan jam tangan kesaya karna saya sangat menginginkan jam tangan G-Shock triple sensor yg bagus ini

I had the gw 9500 with the negative display add returned it. It is not good to read. I would not recommend it at all.

My two cents on this watch, try it on first. It’s amazing and I’ve no critiques on it. However, I went in ready to buy it and was disappointed on its size. It felt like a toy on my wrist, yet online it looks like a proper beast. Even my fiancée commented that it looks like it was made for a 14 year old kid. So definitely try and make sure it looks good on you. I wouldn’t recommend buying it online.

It's Bluetooth but no messages right? So among the three the black one is better?

Just bought this for £175 from H Samuel’s

can you expalin what diffrence between this men and masters Fisherman Raysman Wademan Gaussman Lungman Antman Rangeman Gravitymaster Gulfmaster Rangeman

I Fans ❤ Of G-SHOCK❤