KMII
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The Seiko Alpinist - at home on Mount Everest just as much as in the kitchen 😁🇯🇵
If I recall this correctly, the first claim to fame for the Alpinist line was when all the Rolex Explorer watches stopped working on a Japanese polar expedition and the team accepted an accompanying journalist’s Alpinist instead, which uncomplainingly finished the journey. Having been responsible for marketing for long enough in my career, we’ll call this a fun story, just like 99% are fun stories, whether true or not 😊
At any rate, even if your daily challenge is just whipping up lunch, the watch will be equally well suited to the task - up to 200m of soup resistance included 🍜
Wishing you a great start to the week 👋🏻
Review
KMII reviews the Seiko Landmaster SBDB015, a 47mm titanium Spring Drive GMT watch with incredible lume, designed for extreme mountain expeditions. Discover its features and wearability.
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The Seiko Alpinist - at home on Mount Everest just as much as in the kitchen 😁🇯🇵
If I recall this correctly, the first claim to fame for the Alpinist line was when all the Rolex Explorer watches stopped working on a Japanese polar expedition and the team accepted an accompanying journalist’s Alpinist instead, which uncomplainingly fin...
A chicken, sweet potato and vegetable soup 🍜
Something for the ravenous kids for after school and sports 🏈
According to the expedition…
And Seiko absolutely true. And I have no reason to doubt it - but find these stories don’t do much for me, neither Seiko’s, nor Omega’s, Rolex’s or anybody else’s 😊🤷🏻♂️
Then that’s a testament that I couldn’t ignore being impressed by.
I’m curious if your work in marketing is the reason why select brand stories don’t impress you much (eg sensationalism), or that has always been your nature to not be influenced by stories as opposed to personal/hands-on experience? I ask because I had ta...
I have had to do brand building several times in my career…
And did some consulting in this area previously, too. I guess I was relatively brand immune even beforehand and for quite some time I was proud of being able to find an exciting car I would enjoy from every single (reasonably sized) car manufacturer. This...
Stories :-))
So the Story goes the Seiko Sagarmartha SBCW021 was developed in collaboration with Ken Noguchi, his feedback was to remove the minute markings on the actual dial due to effects of altitude on the brain that make simple mental tasks difficult and somethin...
Here are some more of those explorer story-generating watches
An earlier Alpinist titanium Quartz & Perpetual & GMT & "Compass" The Landmaster titanium with Barometric Pressure-sensing Altitude & 24-hr & Alarm. For reasons I can't remember I got this one instead of the Sagarmatha Kinetic although...
Of course - the 007 😊👍🏻
That one was the limited edition done in concert with the famous Japanese Alpinist. Would love to get one someday 🤞🏻
Now that’s an amazing Alpinist / Landmaster… collection 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
As always, Mike is a cut above 🦾👍🏻
I really like the Alpinist line a lot . Love your blue version 👌🏻
My green says hi ...