blomman Mr Blue
38586
GP Sea Hawk 7100: a personal view
Friends,
The week a new member here asked about the Sea Hawk 7100 he got as a birthday present. A very nice present I must say!
That reminded me that I promised you a review on this watch! So, long time overdue – here is my personal view on this watch.
To start with, I have seen several different dial colors on the Sea Hawk 7100. White, black, but I caught on to the blue version. You know - the color of love…!
Found mine with box and papers from 1989.
On the original bracelet this watch looks very shiny and in pictures would be a no go for me…
The link is nice looking and very comfortable, but the shininess doesn’t really work for me and basically I am not a bracelet person…
Luckily I have a lot of 20 mm straps that would do the trick!
Another detail that (often) is a no go for me is the mix of steel and gold… But here I don’t mind. The Yellow gold hands and applied indexes plus the golden scale on the bezel make the watch more blue and yellow, which is OK for as a Swede!
Actually find that the gold details here gives the watch a much warmer tone that if without.
I now got confirmation from GP that the Sea Hawk 7100 was indeed released in the end of 1988 and produced up until 1990 when it got replaced by the Sea Hawk 7300. The difference between the 7100 and the 7300 – on the 7100 it is a sapphire bezel while on the 7300 it is an aluminum one.
On mine the extra mark between 12 and 3 has gone…
The dial; the blue dial is very dark blue, but depending on angle and light it shifts from a very dark tone to clear blue.
The date window at three has a white date disk. Something we have been discussing a lot on the Blue Hour GP 1966. Here I don’t mind the white background, possible because it is balanced out by the larger luminous indexes…
It wears bigger that 38 mm. Bigger in a good sense, the comfort of 38 but the visual effect is more like 40!
The robust lugs and the crown guard help of course the visual.
Inside the Sea Hawk 7100 at first was the GP caliber 215 based on the Lemania 8810/Longines 990. Later on was the GP caliber 2200 based on ETA 2892, hand polished and assembled by GP. Both automatic movements.
The quite angular lugs make this watch sit perfect on the wrist. Notice the old style GP logo on the crown.
Some may think this one look too much 80’s or 90’s in its design… It lacks the charm of the vintage… It hasn’t got the edge of the current…
But that is exactly what it is! A watch designed and created in the end of the 1980’s and when you look at it for what it is, then the beauty comes forward!
I must confess that I like this watch much more that I thought I would when I first got it!
To me, this is a great everyday watch with a clear link to the past…
And also passage to the future that I hope one day will be mine!
For a guy that one (distant) day hopes to be able to tie the connection between the original Sea Hawk-Deep Diver-Current Sea Hawk…
The Sea Hawk 7100 is a natural choice to include in the collection!
Best
Blomman
This message has been edited by blomman on 2015-03-05 23:53:09
GP Sea Hawk 7100: a personal view
I much prefer the current Sea Hawk to this 7100.
If it was a choice situation....
Not only I like that....
Swedish Sea Hawk! :)
An important piece
Yes, to me the 7100 is the piece...
+1 on the link between Vintg & Contemp !.. Charming blue/YG combo.. Also like..
Yes, the 7100 has its charm! :)
Very nice Seahawk!
