Let's see your Seikos!
Discussion
NDA said:
I have been reading a great deal recently about Grand Seiko's, Spring Drive and High Beat. It seems to me that Seiko make watches that easily rival the very best that Switzerland make. Their attention to detail is quite incredible.
I am resisting all the watches that tempt me as I have two great watches already and really mustn't have any more. I like yours a lot.
It is by far the best watch I've ever owned. It knocks my old Aqua Terra into next week. My Tag Carrera didn't come close.I am resisting all the watches that tempt me as I have two great watches already and really mustn't have any more. I like yours a lot.
The finish and attention to detail on this GS is second to no watch I've ever handled in the metal apart from maybe a Patel.
If you look at the bracelet they have hand polished the end of the links. Creating a very subtle differences to the brushed main part. They have also taken the same finish to the deployment. My photos skills are a bit lacking but you maybe able to see it.
A few more photos for good order.
NDA said:
They are lovely and I'd prefer a bracelet having lost (and found several hours later) an expensive watch on a golf course where a leather strap had failed.... a small area that was glued around part of the buckle had heated and come apart in hot weather. Watch dropped off and I didn't notice until about 3 holes later!
Do you tend to leave the GMT hand reading GMT when not travelling? I wondered about swinging it under the hour hand - or would that look odd?
Does a Hi Beat need servicing more regularly? I imagine not...
I don't really travel, well the odd holdiay, so the GMT hand is not used much. I went for the GMT because red just adds that little bit needed to bring the watch alive. I just set it to local time and leave it.Do you tend to leave the GMT hand reading GMT when not travelling? I wondered about swinging it under the hour hand - or would that look odd?
Does a Hi Beat need servicing more regularly? I imagine not...
You can't set it under the hour hand. The GMT follows 24 hours, where as the hour hand 12 hours.
SeanST150 said:
Seiko's website is absolutely terrible. The pictures on there are useless. Mad considering the asking price. I love the bracelet
Thanks for sharing Sean. The bracelet does looks good - the website does not do it justice. I'm gutted I didn't pick up a Snowflake when in Tokyo - way cheaper than here. I'm torn between the two now so I'll probably just sit on the cash and get neither
.number2 said:
Thanks for sharing Sean. The bracelet does looks good - the website does not do it justice.
I'm gutted I didn't pick up a Snowflake when in Tokyo - way cheaper than here. I'm torn between the two now so I'll probably just sit on the cash and get neither.
The Snowflake is spectacular - I just picked one up while in the US.I'm gutted I didn't pick up a Snowflake when in Tokyo - way cheaper than here. I'm torn between the two now so I'll probably just sit on the cash and get neither
.NDA said:
ewand said:
The Snowflake is spectacular - I just picked one up while in the US.
Nice photo and even nicer watch.I really like the discreet nature of this watch.... 1st class watchmaking, incredible tech blended with traditional engineering.
How are you getting on with it?
Here it is next to a somewhat similar watch, a 2003 Omega Speedmaster Broad Arrow. The BA is 1.75x the weight of the Snowflake so in comparison it feels like you've tethered a housebrick around your wrist.
Fallingup said:
Have to say, these G-Seiko's are growing on me.
They are stunning but somewhat addictive, I am about to have five 
Interestingly, despite it being the one I always wanted and the one I knew about first, I find that I wear the Snowflake the least of all of them. I might have to think about getting rid if that hasn't changed much in the next year or so.
Still, it's such a beautiful watch, and it has a lovely story behind it too, even if that is mostly marketing.
leglessAlex said:
They are stunning but somewhat addictive, I am about to have five
Interestingly, despite it being the one I always wanted and the one I knew about first, I find that I wear the Snowflake the least of all of them. I might have to think about getting rid if that hasn't changed much in the next year or so.
Still, it's such a beautiful watch, and it has a lovely story behind it too, even if that is mostly marketing.
Story?Interestingly, despite it being the one I always wanted and the one I knew about first, I find that I wear the Snowflake the least of all of them. I might have to think about getting rid if that hasn't changed much in the next year or so.
Still, it's such a beautiful watch, and it has a lovely story behind it too, even if that is mostly marketing.
Fallingup said:
Story?
The fact that the dial is modelled on the snow drifts around the Seiko Studio in Japan, and that it's made out of titanium to make it as 'light as a snowflake', and the blued hand to help make the overall aesthetic of the watch very cold. Some find that a bit cheesy I guess, but I really like hearing about the inspiration behind the design. It's marketing, sure, but it's very well done and in my view makes the watch more interesting.
Fallingup said:
I really must see one in the flesh. Don't think that's an option in Scotland. Not so sure about the snowflake dial but the GMT posted above is lovely.
Are you anywhere near Glasgow? James Porter & Son stock them, I got (possibly) the last Peacock GMT for sale in the UK from them. leglessAlex said:
The fact that the dial is modelled on the snow drifts around the Seiko Studio in Japan, and that it's made out of titanium to make it as 'light as a snowflake', and the blued hand to help make the overall aesthetic of the watch very cold.
Some find that a bit cheesy I guess, but I really like hearing about the inspiration behind the design. It's marketing, sure, but it's very well done and in my view makes the watch more interesting.
Some find that a bit cheesy I guess, but I really like hearing about the inspiration behind the design. It's marketing, sure, but it's very well done and in my view makes the watch more interesting.
wong said:
Seen in a 2nd hand shop (Book off) in Fukuoka. Should have bought it. Quartz. Seems to have the snowflake dial -
SBGA 011
And look at that spectacularly immature emblem at 6 o'clock - phallus, testes AND anus.
Should have bought it. Should have bought it.
quote]https://forums.watchuseek.com/f2/loveliest-homages-ive-ever-seen-4595337.html
Hate to quote myself from earlier.
Seiko had this in the 1970's. I'm not sure if the dial is the same, but it is similar.
A little more about it on this thread in the watchuseek forum.
leglessAlex said:
They are stunning but somewhat addictive, I am about to have five
Interestingly, despite it being the one I always wanted and the one I knew about first, I find that I wear the Snowflake the least of all of them. I might have to think about getting rid if that hasn't changed much in the next year or so.
Still, it's such a beautiful watch, and it has a lovely story behind it too, even if that is mostly marketing.
I would probably (were I to every buy another watch) go for the divers version.... I think I'd prefer steel. That would be right after I bought the Aquanaut GMT. And some others.Interestingly, despite it being the one I always wanted and the one I knew about first, I find that I wear the Snowflake the least of all of them. I might have to think about getting rid if that hasn't changed much in the next year or so.
Still, it's such a beautiful watch, and it has a lovely story behind it too, even if that is mostly marketing.
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