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A Rose Gold Version of the Grand Seiko 8-Day Spring Drive: SBGD202
In addition to the platinum model released last year, GS is introducing a rose gold version with black dial, punctuated with thousands of tiny stars in gleaming rose gold. The complete press info is in Press Central. The watches will begin to trickle out of the Micro Arts Studio beginning in September 2017.
Powered by a manual-wind, 8-day Spring Drive movement, this appears to be a beauty.
Several forum members own the platinum watch. Is the Rose Gold version more appealing than platinum?
Does the watch have the technical brilliance, beauty and presence to reward those who buy it, given its significant price?
So far, people here have said yes.
SBGD001 Platinum review / Intro by Molle
Received it today - personal impressions by Tom2517
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A Rose Gold Version of the Grand Seiko 8-Day Spring Drive: SBGD202
In addition to the platinum model released last year, GS is introducing a rose gold version with black dial, punctuated with thousands of tiny stars in gleaming rose gold. The complete press info is in Press Central . The watches will begin to trickle out...
Stunning combination...
...but to me, this could have been a beautiful and classy dress watch were it not for the size. I'm sorry, but 43mm and 13mm thick is huge. That is considerably larger than my Submariner. IMHO a missed opportunity.
That's a choice made to accomodate 3 barrels, 8-day reserve and Spring Drive
There are plenty of smaller watches from Grand Seiko, but none that do what this one does and look like it does. And for your $50K+ I suspect you would want to get a lot of precious metal and great wrist presence. Cazalea
Then bring it down in size...
...and re-purpose it as a proper dress watch. I will say this (and not for the last time)...it doesn't take great talent to make a large, thick watch. It takes exceptional talent to make a watch with complications thin and elegant. I am not very intereste...
To each his own
Personally I prefer under 40mm but I have larger watches because they offer something different and a "presence". You raise the point of what is a "proper dress watch?" Is it this: Or this? Or this? However, this new Grand Seiko is not a dress watch, in m...
Not interested in 'Wrist Presence'
...if I had a platinum watch I'd rather people thought it was stainless steel. To me, a great part of owning a beautifully finished watch, along the lines of Dufour or Smith, would be that 99.9 percent of people would have no idea what it is. That is my i...
A beauty !
if only they have something like this but smaller at 40mm max, that will be beyond perfect! Cheers Robin