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Regal
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Those indices are seriously tall. Kind of a northern european/Bauhaus look. Maybe there were some similar designs from Germany 100 years ago?
Edit: here's a 61GS VFA which fetched £36k at auction! Really? Not a typo? https://www.phillips.com/detail/grand-seiko/CH080121/173
The auctioneer said the indices were 'possibly influenced by the monolith featured in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey'.
Edit again: great minds!
nick_h.
I love the tall indices on this King Quartz. Never seen them before. Are there other references with this feature? This one is a 4823-8120 from 1977. Apparently it's 36mm wide exc. crown https://vintageseiko.nl/store/product/seiko-king-quartz-4823-8120-sold-1 Imagine it was 40mm...it would be madly collectible.