Seiko

This is where the GS story began for me, about 10 years ago. While I was dreaming of the SBGH035 - a dream turned reality some months after this was acquired - I yearned to understand, what the fuss was all about too much to wait. When I found an opportun...  

Very difficult to capture 😊🤷🏻‍♂️

A bit of a chameleon … ...  

Even if there has been a lot of marketing and push over the last years 👍🏻 Looking forward to seeing if you decide on one and which one 🤞🏻😊

Is it smooth seconds? Always admired the way it moves without hacking. Enjoy!

But hits the mark precisely without fail. A higher torque motor to ensure this (and to move the heavier GS hands) 👍🏻

The quality is mind blowing and the accuracy as well ...  

What an epic piece 🙌🏻👏🏻👌🏻

For all its brilliance it is a little bit on the large side 😊

Did you not have a 45mm FF, too? Or is my memory failing me? 😊

Very ignorant when it comes to the brand 🤷🏻‍♂️

Blew my mind just like yours did 😊 ...  

And a watch I still want to get at some point 🤞🏻

Nice to read about your first GS and to know that it's still keeping great time ! 👍 I got my first GS back in '95, before the brand reentered the market with mechanical movements. I haven't worn it (yikes, or seen it !) in over 10 years, so I have some ru... 

An early adopter, then 😊👍🏻

The SLGW004 really looks beautiful. But I have many other temptations, unfortunately and I haven’t seen one in the metal yet… Cheers, Emmanuel

Fortunately access in France is amongst the best in Europe 😊

during my next time in Paris!

Curious to hear what you will think 😊

Here's a pic of my 1st GS and my most recent "Seiko"..... ...  

I see Spring Drive features strongly 🦾

to the next minute. It reminds me of MRI where once you understand how it works you are amazed that humans were smart enough to come up with the concept and then also were smart enough to perfect it. I also have a GS high beat and once came very close to ... 

Also have three Hi-Beats in total, one quartz, and two regular beat automatics. But both the Spring Drives are Seiko as opposed to GS.

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Bought it on a trip to Japan in 23, but I had already decided to buy the watch before going there. As a daily it is incomparable to anything else for me because of the SD movement, being able to trust your wrist watch as much as the watch on your satellit...  

And I can well imagine it being a great daily wearer 👏🏻

My only gripe with the watch are the minute markers, since they are not horizontally on the dial but between the dial and bezel on a separate angled platform they are very hard to read depending on the lighting angle. I use a lot the seconds hand in my da... 

beautifully done and glisten in the sun like freshly written CD backsides, I have no problem with those. The minute markers though, are difficult to see, I generally need to tilt the watch towards where the second hand points in order to see where exactly... 

As for the date window - fully with you. But Seiko still feels they’re a feature 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yes I can imagine they do and Japanese firms are very conservative so I don’t expect a change

They are slowly making the first pieces without, so it is generally moving in the right direction 🤞🏻👍🏻

My first and only. It is in need of a trip to spa; Japan or New Jersey? ...  

And a great way of hiding the GMT hand behind the minutes hand in the shot 😊🙌🏻