Grand Seiko SBGW005 (Pre-owned - Good) — USD 5,553 on eBay

In 2021, Grand Seiko introduced a high-beat watch inspired by the slender and beautiful white birch trees of the Hiraniwa Plateau in northern Japan. This timepiece was warmly praised by watch fans worldwide for its intricately textured dial and for the revolutionary Hi-Beat 36000 Automatic Caliber 9

Many of us, being opinionated PuristS, tend to go on and on about "NO STINKING DATE WINDOWS" on our watches. After reading the umpteenth thread on this, as Moderator on this sub-Forum I have decided to take action. Herewith, the table of Grand Seiko models that are available without dates. Including

Can we have too many beautiful watches? So far (10 years along this path) I say no. Many of you have seen my SOTC (state of the collection) post in the past 2 years, and I read encouragement. And I was able to encourage some of you to justify your collections to your families by comparison ("See, I'

As we continue our SEIKO PROFILE SERIES, today’s subject is the Grand Seiko manual wind watch. Rather than focus on one model, I'm going to provide photos of four. In order we have SBGW033, then SBGW005 (bracelet and blue second hand), SBGW003 (blued hands and gold numerals), and SBGW001 all silver.

Hi Again, I posted here a few weeks back, looking at a number of different hand wind watches that met a set of criteria. I was looking for my first manual wind watch to add to my collection of six automatic watches (Ball Engineer Master II Diver Chronometer, Glashutte Original Panomatic Lunar, IWC A

Grand Seiko fans can be tedious as devotees of any brand, so rather than pontificate on the watches, I thought a photo session would be more interesting. Grab a beer or a nice single malt whiskey or maybe a great glass of Cabernet. Now while the thirsty ones are off chasing a drink, for the rest of