cazalea
[Seiko Moderator]
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Because virtually all movements today have a date and it costs money to take it off
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New Seiko Models for 2021: Alpinist Re-creations
In 1959 Seiko’s first Alpinist watch was introduced to meet the needs of mountain climbers and recreational field sports enthusiasts. From the start, it was well received and, over the ensuing decades, its reputation spread far beyond the Japanese market ...
All are nice. Yet I prefer without a date window is best for me if I buy one.
But for today modern watch, it seems having a date function is more appropriate.
Absolutly. Why do so many brands take vintage inspiration and add a date?
You see a similar thing with manual wind recreations ending up as automatics... Such a shame.
I get the economics of it, but it still bugs me...
Question though, could they not just leave the date mechanism on the movement but not cut a date window on the dial? Seems like an easy cheap fix, is it not?
No because the crown adjustment for date would still be there
They have to take that out, etc etc
That seems like another fairly easy thing to remove.
I believe, for many movements, this would require changing one part to bypass it. Or am I incorrect in that?
