G-Shock GBM-2100LXB-1A2 Adds a Royal Oak-Inspired Textured Dial
The latest Luxe Black CasiOak pairs a raised checker dial and patterned strap with Tough Solar power and 200-meter water resistance.
The G-Shock 2100 has built a following beyond its resemblance to the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. Its latest Luxe Black version, reference GBM-2100LXB-1A2, revisits that comparison with a raised checker pattern across the dial and a matching texture on the resin strap. Blue accents add color to an otherwise mostly black design.
G-ShockThe 2100 arrived in 2019 with an octagonal bezel and a sporty profile that recalled the Royal Oak. Watch fans soon gave it the nickname “CasiOak.” A G-Shock 2100 comparison with the Royal Oak became part of the model’s story, but hundreds of colorways and variants have since helped the 2100 develop an identity of its own. This new dial brings the design references back into focus.
A dial with a long design history
The Royal Oak’s Tapisserie dial has been a defining part of the watch since its 1972 debut. Its pattern is more involved than a checkerboard printed onto a flat surface: it consists of raised pyramids with square bases, separated by diamond-shaped recesses.
To develop the original pattern, dialmaker Stern Frères used seven vintage guilloché-copying machines to produce 300 possibilities. The team reduced those to 13 designs for prototypes before choosing T21, also known as Tapisserie 21, for the first Petite Tapisserie dial.
That traditional process uses a pantograph-style guilloché machine and a burin, a precision cutting tool, to engrave a brass dial blank. G-Shock’s new texture evokes the resulting geometry without using those machines. The resemblance comes through in the raised, repeating squares, while the watch keeps the 2100’s own construction and digital-analog layout.
Blue is another deliberate cue. Audemars Piguet’s “Bleu Nuit, Nuage 50” is a distinctive steel-blue shade often associated with the Royal Oak. On the GBM-2100LXB-1A2, a blue tone appears on the mode indicator hand, with a different blue used for the ring around the dial. Gray hands and indices provide contrast against the dark face.
Luxe Black details
This reference joins G-Shock’s Luxe Black collection, which dresses up the 2100 with subdued colors and revised dial finishes. Earlier models used a more subtle grated texture. Here, the checker pattern is the main visual change, and its continuation onto the resin strap gives the watch a more unified appearance.
The case, bezel and dial are predominantly black, with the gray markers and hands providing the clearest separation. The patterned surface adds depth to the face without changing the watch’s familiar analog-digital display. In that sense, the update is a design-led variation: the 2100’s recognizable shape remains, while its surface treatment makes the Royal Oak reference easier to spot.
Underneath the new finish, the GBM-2100LXB-1A2 retains the 2100’s Tough Solar movement, analog-digital display and 200-meter water resistance. Those specifications keep it recognizably within the G-Shock range even as the dial borrows from a much older luxury-watch design. The supplied details don’t indicate any change to the core feature set.
Price and availability
The GBM-2100LXB-1A2 has appeared on G-Shock’s international sites, while US pricing and availability have yet to be confirmed. The expected price is around $260, in line with earlier Luxe Black versions, but that figure is an estimate rather than a confirmed US price.
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For 2100 fans, the appeal is the intersection of a familiar G-Shock platform and a dial texture with a distinct watchmaking lineage. The all-black palette keeps the treatment restrained; the blue details and raised pattern carry most of the visual change. Check G-Shock’s regional listings for confirmed availability and local pricing before making plans to buy.
