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