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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 somewhat better known black dial brother (SCFF001 vs. SCFF003 for the silver dial one) they started off the SUS line.
And still a lovely - even if somewhat small wearing - piece today ⚖️
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 to find one (unless you’re in Japan) - needed more than 7 years to get mine 😊🤷🏻♂️
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 🧐