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Edit: here's a 61GS VFA which fetched £36k at auction! Really? Not a typo? https://www.phillips.com/detail/grand-seiko/CH080121/173
Really. With the buyer’s premium it was closer to 50k. It is a very good example of one - not the rarest VFA (very fine adjusted), but then VFAs in general are rare because they were short lived, co-existing with Seiko’s new quartz tech at the turn of the ‘70s. They were also expensive when new.
Prices of certain rare GS models have skyrocketed in recent years as people have become more aware of the brand and some of the most notable references from its past. People are also looking for the next good value thing to invest in… But prices are also quite volatile because relatively few come to auction, so there isn’t a lot to go on in terms of guide prices.
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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!