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a super early version of the thought process used in the spring drive watches.
I saw a video about that the other day. Spring drive looks great but $$$.
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Spring drive
It's an incredible tech. Maybe a next watch purchase but nothing spendy will enter the collection until we've moved house early next year.
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I’ve seen the “entry level” spring drive model, the SBGA285, from Watches of Mayfair for about £2700. Would very much like one of those when I grow up. I like that they’re very clean and minimal and a bit less flashy than a lot of GS stuff.
Soul
Regal
New watch day for me today; picked it up from the post office on the way into work.
It's a Seiko Elnix (0703-7020) from 1973. It's the last of Seiko's transistorised movements (a precursor to quartz) so employs a balance wheel like a mechanical watch but has a coil and a double stacked balance wheel with magnets attached, generating current when it swings back and forth:
This means the seconds sweep like a normal mechanical watch at 28,800bph. It's sort of a super early version of the thought process used in the spring drive watches.
It's got a lovely weaved etch on the dial as well as a cool raised Elnix logo and super seventies angular case sides.