Reference Guide
Cazalea initiates a comprehensive exploration of Seiko's diverse "World Time" watches, prompted by community discussion. This first part of his series introduces various types of Seiko World Timers, from automatic to quartz and ana-digi models, laying the groundwork for understanding the brand's approach to global timekeeping complications.
They would give the Swiss brands a run for their money. I'm really surprised that Grand Seiko hasn't produced their own WT watch yet.
I donβt think World Timer fits the GS profile. Remember even a small seconds subdial seems too fussy for GS. As you probably know, the mechanical watches come from the North SII studio, and all the spring drive and quartz and Credor come from the West Seiko/Epson plant where a great deal of research and pride have been invested into Astron which is a GPS-set solar world timer. Mike
definitely some interesting pies - does rekindle the interest in a world time watch. Not that I really need one mind! Cheers JML
What Seiko introduced 1964 for the Tokyo Olympics at the then high price of 12'000 yen was a watch with an additional hand making one full turn in 24 hours. The corresponding scale allowed to read "world time" with the help of a inner city bezel to be manually rotated. This 1st series "World Time" has the automatic caliber 6217. The separate 24 hour hand is driven by a pinion mounted on the minute wheel. This 24 hour hand cannot be set separately, but is rather connected to the 12 hour based mai
Yes, it is a mystery why they call certain of the watches "World Timer" when they might only have added a bezel with city names printed on it. But then who are we to argue with Seiko's marketing department? If they say so, it must be so ... we will find the same thing when examining the World Time Clocks! Mike
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