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Grand Seiko is pleased to announce a new slim design in the Elegance Collection. The combination of a new case, a new manual-winding caliber with a small seconds hand and Urushi lacquer has made possible the creation of a watch that offers a new graceful ...  

Just saw the first pictures of the Iwate dial model in steel and was quite impressed. Any idea on the case dimensions, especially thickness?

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Remember GS these are serious business watches; if you want dressy ultra-thin you go to Credor

The quartz models are much slimmer than the mechanical and Spring Drive models.

Didn’t see the spec sheet when I read your post 👍🏻

“It was the software/ISP/internet/sunspots/astral motion/volcano/etc. fault”

Sometimes these things happen 🤷🏻‍♂️

I might even go for the SBGK005 which has a lovely dial and attractive pricing.

I also wonder given the size of the new movement will we see its base form in an even smaller sized watch? It seems from the pictures there are some mm to spare and so perhaps this shows up in a 37mm manual wind also. I think this release makes me more ex... 

. . . to top that spectacular blue dial. Art

. . . but not optimistic about my reaction. Smaller vintage models are much more my speed these days. The same movement in a 37 mm case would be a different story, methinks. Especially with a black dial. Art

Are dress watched?

NT

Someone was looking for this before.

I’d say this one is big enough to read easily. Cazalea

I suspect this "new" movement is just a simplified 6S37 auto chrono movement (or 6S74 manual winding chrono) which is an almost 20 years old movement. I owned the 6S chrono and I can tell you it is a high quality and very accurate mechanical movement. But...  

I can see many similarities in the basic architecture - perhaps this truly is a derivation / simplification of the old chrono movement. I have had one since new as well. Here’s the imaginary brief handed to a team: Take away time measuring Take away autom...