As a child of the 1990s, I’ve always had a soft spot for the high-tech, colorful, organic liquid-metal design trends that permeated the latter half of that decade into the early 2000s — think Oakley sunglasses, the colored clear-case Nintendo 64, and the like. It’s a distinctive, often divisive era in design, but as time marches on, a new wave of Y2K-era nostalgia is building across popular culture. Casio seems to be the first watchmaker to dive deeply into this trend, creating a wild, unapologetically bold all-new G-Shock silhouette that looks like it could have come straight from the year 2000. The new Casio G-Shock GAV01A-8A combines the G-Shock’s traditional mix of toughness and functionality with an out-of-this-world new form factor and a handful of technical advancements, creating a fun, funky timepiece that makes me feel like a kid again in ways few watches do.

Even by G-Shock’s generous sizing standards, the Casio G-Shock GAV01A-8A is a massive watch. Measuring in at 58.2mm wide and a towering 19.6mm thick, the smooth, retro-futuristic resin case is enough to dwarf nearly any wrist (one of the aforementioned ways this watch makes me feel like a kid again), but like many other G-Shock designs, the numbers tell far from the full story. Not only does the resin construction make this case shockingly light, but this organically streamlined shape wraps around even my modest 6.75-inch wrist comfortably and without overhang. The GAV01A-8A’s real secret weapon for wearability, though, is its relatively compact 49.1mm lug-to-lug length. This is shorter than a fair number of more conventional 40/41mm wide watch cases. Even given this accessible lug-to-lug size, though, this is a case that positively screams for attention – this will not blend quietly into your outfit, or slide under a cuff, or demurely complete an ensemble, far from it. Love it or hate it, this design becomes the centerpiece of whatever outfit you happen to be wearing at the time.