Seiko SUS - or where the renaissance began 🇯🇵
Looking at it nowadays it doesn’t sound like the clarion call to resuscitate mechanical watch making in Japan but with a GS movement from the 1970s and a design tested to appeal to the Japanese youth of the day that’s what it was. Together with the somewh...
A very unusual type of watch for relaunching high quality mechanical movements…
But then again Japan has always worked a tad differently 😊
Came out from a customer clinic…
With Japanese youth, going through all the old catalogs and selecting what appealed to them most.
Relevant yet nowadays almost forgotten 🤷🏻♂️
With it being a JDM only model and produced for a short while a long time ago it never got the popularity it would have had had it been made by a Swiss brand 😉 On the bright side they are still reasonably priced, even if it will most likely take you ages ...
They did things a bit differently in the 1990s 😁
The case came pre-stressed (akin to stone washed jeans), so some dings came with it new and no two were completely the same. And the lumed hands are still like a torch almost 30 years later 😁🦾
I saw it and I knew it had to be yours.
What an interesting collection of Seikos you have!
Oh thanks 😊👍🏻🙏🏻
For the kind words! Nothing on Cazalea but a small collection has accumulated over the years 😊
Now that’s an interesting idea 😊👍🏻
Not sure they would and definitely justifying such a high quality movement in a non-GS or Credor nowadays could be a challenge 🧐