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4420-9000 & 44GS L.E Taro Tanaka, Seiko’s first hired graduate of a College Design Program came up with design rules which eventually came to be known as the “Grammar of Design” at Seiko. He wanted Seiko watches to sparkle brilliantly when on display and ...  

.. you have the best of the best watches in the accuracy department. Well, to my eyes, aesthetics, too, though :-) Extremely affordable, accurate, durable, and beautiful case.... It's the shame that SEIKO still has the "lost quarter century" - when they a... 

Thanks for presenting a very comprehensive summary of the Grand Seiko and what they stand for. Goes to show just how underrated they have been in many circles and Seiko deserves to be given a lot more credit where due. Their pursuit for perfection is amaz... 

But, of course, it was easy to convince me. Best, CaliforniaJed ...  

.. superb movement to say the least! Made by Suwa Seiko-sha (today's Seiko Epson), nonetheless it was a super machine back then. Ken

I particularly like to focus on the special case design of these watches. I happen to have a NOS 4522-8000, and find the case to be exceptional. Cheers, Tony C. ...  

4520A-8000 without date.... You have superb GS collection, Tony! Should take bothers shot one of these days.... perhaps when they all have been regulated to +/- 1 sec per day :-) Ken ...  

Thankyou for a brilliant reference post Best Hans

Enjoy this post very much

of Seiko's chronometer endeavors! here is a profile contribution: ...  

Its amazing how you guys can still manage to find NOS pieces. Great write up as well.

Ninja01 from Seikoholics was kind enough to indicate a mistake in the following sentence: "When the VFA was sold in the early 1970s it was advertised to have an accuracy of +-3 seconds per day." According to the database information by Kobayashi Seiya (KS... 

gave me the opportunity to learn things I knew absolutely nothing about! Impressive! And, though very far from what I'm naturally attracted to, I like the case profile of these three watches very much: they belong to an aesthetic world of their own and ar... 

but once you start, it is very hard to stop loool ) to the point I visited the Seiko Museum and the Shizukuishi Watch Studio at Morioka, a great and eye opening experience.

It's a lot of fun 😇

Thanks for putting this together for us - even if it was some years ago already (not that the past changed since 🤷🏻‍♂️) 👍🏻

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