cazalea[Seiko Moderator]
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I would think they're comparable to what you are modifying now
Aug 07, 2019,22:34 PM
Movements are traditional and based on the 7S26 though evolved in many ways. I’m not sure where the cases are made.
I believe the images may be computer generated. I’ll look again tomorrow.
Mike
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NEW SEIKO 5 Sport Watch line
By: cazalea : August 7th, 2019-07:07
Seiko sent a press release today announcing the availability of a new line of watches, a fusion of Seiko 5 and Seiko Sports. The new logo is a stylized S indicating this compression of two historic Seiko lines. For sake of visibility, I filtered out the b...
Great watches...
By: India Whiskey Charlie : August 7th, 2019-09:58
Although it will be tough to choose from 27 variants.
Seiko's specs are wildly outside of the normal performance
By: cazalea : August 7th, 2019-12:08
If you look around on the web you will see the 4R36 does much better than the Specs Seiko publishes -- actually I saw +45/-30 as specs but people claiming +/- 3 or 5 seconds. Maybe 6-12 seconds a day is reasonably good performance that many people report....
The specs say +25/-15 for the 6R15 movement in this Seiko ...
By: COUNT DE MONET : August 8th, 2019-01:09
However it is running amazingly accurate: only -1 sec in position crown down over night, + 5 sec crown and dial up. Fair to say chronometer grade. I will observe it further but I understand your concerns fully: on paper it sounds not good. ...
Thanks for sharing - are they Seiko standard quality?
By: xxcesar : August 7th, 2019-22:13
As a heavy modifier of Seikos, I can see, where they draw the inspiration from, it is a nice idea, but execution looks cheap on the pictures. Have to see in real, but not sold yet.
Let‘s see
By: xxcesar : August 8th, 2019-01:59
Having some official Seiko colleagues following my insta channel, I might even feel that some of my mods are used as inspiration, but from the pictures I still like mine better in style and quality (not objective view of course). Example: Will need to see...
Pictures
By: xxcesar : August 8th, 2019-02:00
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Not that much honor
By: xxcesar : August 8th, 2019-13:30
The classic that started with the 6309 is genuine. My point is that the new line looks like a response to the multitude of mods that improve over the Seiko original offering, just like all auto OEMs now have their in-house tuning branch. C.