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Yeah, think I mentioned that before, a friend said to me “it looks a bit Reich-y”. It’s made me think of White Castle a few times.
I’ll write an essay of a reply one of these days about the Grand Seiko blackletter type, because I’m a nerd. It’s a thing in Japan and it is very much to do with the German influence from WW2. As is the “zaratsu” polishing (a transliteration of Salatz, I think, which was the German maker of the zinc disc polishing machines they acquired and started using on watch cases).
Basically, I reckon they were simply trying to make it look European and imply history or heritage with it. They were obsessed with beating the Swiss at the watchmaking game. Blackletter was the dominant lettering style in Germanic languages for hundreds of years.
Guess that turned into an essay.
Regal-
It’s a thing in Japan and it is very much to do with the German influence from WW2.
Is it really very much to do with the WW2 period? Would have thought it would be a Meiji thing imported by Prussians. Didn't get the impression the Axis powers did much cultural exchange TBH; by that point the Japanese had little need for much from Germany, except possibly an inline liquid cooled super-charged aviation engine.
Howard
such nice watches and i want to love them, just cant get over the Grand Seiko font. Looks so steampunk/suburban chinese takeaway to me