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Cheers, I did actually enquire as to the price of an at best, good condition 6186-8000 on the Seiko guys website, $14k......
was expecting a lot but.....
olibob-
Well they are quite rare and you would be buying from the world’s premier authority on vintage Grand Seiko.
I didn’t pay near that (maybe a third) because it had some rust spots on the edge of the dial but with a mint case and indices it still felt special. I feel I was lucky to even get a shot at owning this reference.
inchpincher
The 6186-8000 with the tall indices is pretty unique and IMHO the pinnacle of the ‘Grammer of Design’ Seiko ethos of the era.
Modern GS is probably the closest equivalent in terms of sharp lined cases and dial furniture however vintage Lordmatic/King Seiko/King Quartz/Grand Quartz are great sub £200-300 buys which share a lot of the Grammer characteristics.
These are probably the two best GS resource websites https://thegrandseikoguy.com/
https://www.plus9time.com
And this article about Grand Quartz has sent me down quite a rabbit hole of late nights scouring Yahoo Japan...
https://thegrandseikoguy.com/2020/04/07/a-history-of-grand-seiko-1975-to-1988/