cazalea[Seiko Moderator]
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I will now show the GS models I have loved and lost
Jan 09, 2017,08:12 AM
Although technically not a GS, this is one of the very first commercially-sold Seiko Spring Drives. I think 500 were made in the late Nineties. It was about 35mm, thin, with a crummy bracelet. But still a milestone.
at the time I didn't appreciate it - and I didn't like that tiny link being all that held the bracelet together.
Now I have the Credor variant from the same era, so I'm happy.
My first Grand Seiko spring drive, from 2005.
too boring, frankly. In retrospect, I'm still kind of neutral on it
This quartz, "low end" model just was too bland
This one, a manual wind, I sold to another Purist because I had 3 similar watches SBGW001, SBGW003, SBGW005 and decided I didn't need to keep them all
I have no idea why I sold this, because I liked the funky case and the diamond pattern dial
except that I briefly had one black (quartz) and one white (automatic) and must have felt that was excessive
I owned one of these, and foolishly agreed to sell or trade it to a guy in SE Asia as part of my deal to get the SBGW003, and then went out and found another one immediately, even before I shipped the first one.
This is another sub-brand of Seiko, in the GS level of quality but rather than a respectably suited businessman, it's his tattooed, pierced, overly-stylish cousin.
I also had this Credor Chrono, which is just a hair under the GS level, but I couldn't read it well due to the white hands on white dial, so it went away somewhere
Cazalea