SUS

Seiko was seriously considering what the future would bring in the 1900s - especially in terms of how to get young people to maintain an interest in mechanical watches. While the overall story of the SUS line is widely known, the executive summary goes th

Seiko did this in the 1990s, with the SUS line. Not exactly scratched in a conventional way but pre-stressed, like the then popular stone washed jeans. 👖 A bit less extreme than the Bvlgari approach…

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

And a watch that I have been looking for longest, at over 7 years - the Seiko SUS SCFF003. This one and the black dial version (SCFF001) were amongst the watches relaunching high end mechanical watchmaking at Seiko (the movement deriving from a GS caliber

While my photography skills are not to be ever mentioned in the same sentence as Casey’s, here still some of the shots I have liked over the past years… In addition to the three, a small memento. While I have not known Casey very well we have on occasion

Here some of mine: Starting with the most recent. Years ago I found news of this appearing and it definitely looked like something I would enjoy. A fellow forum member, also interested tried to help out but at that point this was a JDM effort only and not

If I can remember them all: 2019 Arrivals Panerai PAM 721 (1st watch of the year) IWC Mark XVIII Pilot's Watch for H IWC Pilot's Watch 36 for Revolution Omega Speedmaster x H 10th Anniversary Seiko Alpinist Blue LE SPB089 Seiko Alpinist Green SARB017 Seik

Both from 1996. The Seiko cal. 4S15 hacks, hand-winds, and runs at 28,800 bph. Compare to the cal. 7S26 that later replaced it which does not hack nor hand-winds and runs at a slower 21,600 bph. Even today's Seiko 6S and 4R series of movements run at 21,6

This time they are bringing back one of the watches from the SUS line from the late 1990s! Unfortunately, it's only the quartz model field/pilot watch. The design was inspired by the Mark 11. It was originally offered in 2 -3 colorways IIRC, but now there

I'm working on a series of posts for assorted sub-brands of Seiko, and thought I would ask for help from all Seiko lovers here. Let's not make it impossible by adding start/stop dates, just names that appear on a watch which you know is a Seiko, ok? This