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Wow love the dial, but can’t stand blue hands myself. And the fixed end links could be awkward. I’ve been loving the SBGA201 recently.
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Grand Seiko's heat-blued hands are some of the best there are. It's a very skilful manual process and they are incredibly uniform and consistent. One of the places where you can really see a GS point of differentiation from the Swiss set (along with the diamond polished dial furniture).
Not sure what you mean by fixed end links? The bracelet is typical GS, except that the lug width has gone up to 22mm and the links are fully brushed instead of having the polished bands (it is polished on the sides as usual). The lugs are drilled, as per usual with GS, so it would be easy to swap the bracelet off for a strap. There's clearly enough give in the end links, again, typical GS, they don't fit as flush as Rolex end links do, but then no-one matches Rolex there and I believe some looseness in the bracelet is how the Japanese like it.
Regal
Checked out an SLGH005 this morning - I have never tried a modern GS (circa 40mm and on a bracelet) that wears this well. Movement is a big step up in a regular production GS (though you do pay for it, naturally, rrp is 8500). Great watch. This with less fussy markers/hands would be a total home run and probably have me saving up.