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Pump up the tires on your BMX and slap that ’80s mix tape into your walkman, Season 5 of Stranger Things is finally back. To mark the occasion, Netflix and Casio have come together to drop a pair of watches that evoke Reagan-era Hawkins, IN, and honor the genre-drenched, must-watch series. The pair includes a G-ShockDW-5600STT-1 and Casio Vintage AQ-800EST-1A, both wrapped in twisting, creeping vines as if the hold of Vecna is silently spreading across your wrist as you enter the blood-curdling world of The Upside Down.
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Cloaked in the Vecna pattern, the dial of the classic G-Shock design features the show’s title featured above 12 o’clock. The letter “A” in “LED BACK LIGHT” appears upside down, alluding to the eerie Upside Down dimension and the red backlight echoes the show’s signature color palette. On the band loop, “011” is printed—a reference to Eleven, one of the show’s most important and dynamic characters.
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The analogue-digital hybrid Casio Vintage AQ-800EST-1A also gets the Vecna treatment both on the square dial and around the digital display. The applied metallic indexes are rendered in the distinctive Stranger Things typeface and the show’s logo is also printed just below 12 o’clock. The case back is engraved with the Stranger Things logo (as is the G-Shock model), while the stainless steel bracelet clasp cover bears the number “001”—the tattoo seen on Vecna’s wrist.
The G-Shock DW-5600STT-1 and Casio Vintage AQ-800EST-1A are both available at casio.com. The G-Shock retails for $150 and the Casio Vintage costs $130.
