Seiko

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 re...  

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Thanks - I assume this is the press release? GS does a lot of things nicely. I’m not going to go over them. May I please instead politely recount a few of my frustrations with GS? First, the extraneous dial text. It’s like they’re channeling Rolex…but not... 

You're entitled to express your opinion. As for ritual flogging, that depends. Not everyone is entitled to that! As regards the numbering scheme, I have partially deciphered it, and you can see the results for yourself: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q 1... 

Your spreadsheet detailing the references is a labour of love and I’m sure it will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for all the effort.

As it is highlighted as a link I did and was pleasantly surprised. Thank you again as I’m enjoying exploring it.

I thought the "white birch" was one of the special dials which helped showcase the fantastic Caliber 9SA5. I do like spring drive in general and find the new iteration interesting. But why put the new movement in a replica of the automatic? This makes so ... 

On a watch that’s becoming a classic for GS… Isn’t that called evolutionary progress.

A GS watch "family" might be populated by manual wind, regular automatic, hi-beat, Spring Drive and/or quartz movements. NOTE: Chronographs are seldom sold by Grand Seiko and have their own sort of lineage and by necessity their own cases. This is not nec...  

I'm just starting to delve deeper into Seiko and have been considering the SLGA009: or even the (much more expensive) SLGA008 model: But also the model SLGH005 (Hi-Beat version) which - as we see - looks completely like the SLGA009 (these names…..) It's s...  

In theory, the Spring Drive might need service eventually. There is less stress on the watches as there is no start/stop, tic/toc of the movement. The smooth running, no-contact escapement/time regulation circuits have no wearing parts, other than pivots ...  

This was very helpful. You mentioned that there are multiple levels of Spring Drive quality. Do you know if the SLGA009 and the SLGA008 have implemented the same quality of Spring Drive movement? Many thanks in advance Thomas

Caliber 9RA2 At the birthplace of Spring Drive, the Shinshu Watch Studio, craftsmen and women assemble timepieces by hand, from the case, dial, hands and indexes to all other components. At every step of the process, from development and design to manufac...