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NEW SEIKO 5 Sport Watch line
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 backgrounds on the watches (Seiko marketing thoughtfully pointed out that we could turn off background layers using Photoshop), otherwise the images would have looked like this:
SUITS SRPD76
SPECIALIST SRPD76
SENSE SRPD77
STREET SRPD79
NOTE: this is a bit like the BBC TV announcement telling us in the near future we can use the app to adjust the volume of music, background sound effects and voice SEPARATELY, in an attempt to assuage the millions of hearing impaired (or just plain annoyed) customers who have complained
"WE CAN'T HEAR THE DIALOGUE OVER ALL THE OTHER CRAP NOISES ON THIS PROGRAM!"
Now, back to the watches.
For over 50 years, Seiko 5 Sports has delivered consistently high levels of reliability, durability, performance and value that have endeared it to lovers of mechanical watches worldwide.
Today, with the creation of a new design and a broad new collection, this much loved timepiece is re-born.
Welcome to the new Seiko 5 Sports, a collection with all the same values but a fresh new look. All will be available in September 2019.
Born in the 60’s. Loved ever since.
The first ever Seiko 5 watch, Seiko Sportmatic 5, was born in 1963. It was Seiko’s and Japan’s first ever automatic day-date watch. ‘’5’’ represented the promise that every Seiko 5 watch would have five key attributes;
1. an automatic movement
2. a day-date display at the three o’clock position
3. water resistance
4. a recessed crown at the four o’clock position
5. a case and bracelet built for durability
Taken together and in combination with the then-new mainspring and shock resistance system, these features gave Seiko 5 its distinctive appearance and its strength.
In 1968, Seiko 5 Sports was born. It was created for the ever-growing number of men and women who wanted a watch they could trust as they played sports. In addition to the fundamental values of Seiko 5, Seiko 5 Sports offered:
6. enhanced water resistance
7. a strengthened crystal
8. luminous hands and hour markers.
The new design. Founded in heritage. Created for the individual.
The new Seiko 5 Sports draws its inspiration from the five decades of Seiko 5 Sports’ success and its design is based on one of Seiko’s most loved sports watches.
Every creation in the new collection shares an updated version of this celebrated case and all have
9. arrow shaped minute hands
10. distinctive hour markers and
11. one-way rotating bezel
12. Seiko’s Caliber 4R36, with 24 jewels, optional manual-winding, a 41 hour power reserve and a hacking second hand.
There are no fewer than 27 different executions! Each in one of five styles: Sports, Suits, Specialist, Street and Sense.
All have new dials with three-dimensional hour markers and the collection embraces a wide range of straps and bracelets from steel mesh to silicone/leather hybrids.
Caliber 4R36
Vibrations: 21,600 vibrations per hour (6 beats per second)
Power reserve: 41 hours
Number of jewels: 24
Specifications
Stainless steel case and bracelet with three-fold clasp with secure lock & push button release (SRPD51)
Stainless steel case and bracelet with sliding clasp (SRPD73)
Stainless steel case with rose gold color coating (SRPD76)
Stainless steel case with black color hard-coating (SRPD79)
Stainless steel case with black color hard-coating (SRPD77)
Silicone/calf hybrid strap (SRPD76)
Nylon strap (SRPD77, 79)
Hardlex crystal
See-through screw case back
Diameter: 42.5mm, Thickness: 13.4mm
Water resistance: 10 bar
Magnetic resistance: 4,800 A/m
Approximate recommended retail prices in Europe: from 280 to 340 Eur
AVAILABLE September 2019
Cazalea
NEW SEIKO 5 Sport Watch line
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...
$300 each, more or less -- even getting 5 still in the "petty cash" price range
I just added specs, pricing and timing to the bottom of the article. Mike
Seiko's specs are wildly outside of the normal performance
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 ...
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?
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.
I would think they're comparable to what you are modifying now
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
Let‘s see
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...
So are you saying you inspired Seiko's SKX diver's line like the SKX007 and SKX009?
Because these new Seiko 5's are almost exact copies of the SKX line in terms of looks.
Not that much honor
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.
I find these OK as they are re-specced SKX divers made to be non-diver "sports" watches
The change of movement from the old and tired non-hacking, non-hand-winding 7s26 to the hacking and hand-winding 4R series is a welcome change, but not the others IMHO. Loss of screw-down crown Loss of luminous pip on insert Downgrade of water resistance ...
