Seiko Spring Drive

[Debaser]

After looking through Toshi's pictures and the comment about the Marinemaster 300 being Spring Drive (or not as it turned out) I read up on it and it looks like an interesting combination of automatic and electric. I also love the look of this and it's now on my list of watches I'd love to own!

http://japwatches.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/seiko-s...

I'm interested to hear people's thoughts on Spring Drive?

Thanks.

[Mr_Sukebe]

Wow, 17mm thick, and I thought the SXK007 I recently bought was large.

[Toshi]

Love the Spring Drive.

Never actually owned one, but I've heard many good things about the watches, and the accuracy is outstanding. Some people look down their nose at them as being "glorified quartz", but they are much cleverer than that.

The one thing that everyone I've spoken to about them loves is the sweep of the seconds hand. No graduated stutter with the SD, just a smooth sweep.

Good choice

[Debaser]

I was wondering if they'd be thought of as a 'glorified quartz'? But you're right, after reading about Spring Drive it's very impressive. It seems not uncommon for owners to report them accurate to 1 second a week!

I'm going to have to get saving! But I'm a bit worried it might be too big at 17mm thick.

[HereBeMonsters]

Toshi said:

The one thing that everyone I've spoken to about them loves is the sweep of the seconds hand. No graduated stutter with the SD, just a smooth sweep.

Are there any automatics that do that?

[Civpilot]

HereBeMonsters said:

Toshi said:

The one thing that everyone I've spoken to about them loves is the sweep of the seconds hand. No graduated stutter with the SD, just a smooth sweep.

Are there any automatics that do that?

No. some a very smooth, but the spring drive is totally smooth as it has no cog to work on the second hand (as it were)

[Toshi]

HereBeMonsters said:

Toshi said:

The one thing that everyone I've spoken to about them loves is the sweep of the seconds hand. No graduated stutter with the SD, just a smooth sweep.

Are there any automatics that do that?

No autos, no, but you get the same sweep with the tuning fork watches (electric watches, not quartz) from the 1970's. They're also a lot cheaper than Seiko Spring Drives LOL

I have a few....







If you want to read a little about how they work, see http://www.electric-watches.co.uk, which is a great reference site for all electric watches.

[Steve748]

43mm X 16mm it's going to look huge.... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Seiko-Spring-Drive-Chrono-LE...