What time is it? Watches and horology

Quite normal on dual language day wheels at that price point, which alternate Day 1, Language 1, language 2. Day 2, Language 1, language 2. Most of my Seikos will switch from D1L1 to D1L2 at 1200 then D1L2 to D2L1(next day) at 0300.

Yeah, a lot of date wheels won’t switch instantly at midnight - that requires a specially designed mechanism that’s more complicated than the standard method (the energy required to “flick” the date wheel over needs to be stored up in a spring). Most watches will start changing day/date a little before midnight and take a few hours to fully change over.

Thanks!

Thanks, that’s super helpful.

Don’t know how I feel about that, felt a little too clean, 33mm is a bonus tho.

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Looks tiny

33mm khaki woah!! Ideal for my tiny wrists, I wish there were more 34mm field watches available

Insta-grail.

https://www.grand-seiko.com/uk-en/collections/slgw005g

Having the new manual hibeat means they couldn’t make it the original width, but that, combined with the decision not to include the black surface sections on the hands and markers means that what they’ve actually made is a hibeat 44GS, not a 45GS. And that makes it all the better IMO. And a display back. I love it.

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Absolute beauty.

Very tempted.

Speak to them quick if you are. (I have my name on one.)

What would be too small for you?

That’s niiiiice

So wound it up and wore it and it stopped after forty hours , my other automatics would have kept going so the verdict is it’s borked. I’ll look into repair / new movement.

I'm going to have to pass. £9k is too meaty for me right now. Too many other things to spend money on.

Can't wait to see pics on the wrist though.

The power reserve on the STP1-11 movements in those is a claimed 44 hours, so that sounds normal.

I'm having to sell a LOT of stuff to make it happen. But it just pushes all my buttons. It's a significantly better SBGW047, basically.

It's a stunner for sure. I could do it on the never never with V12 or whatever but I'm really enjoying having no debt right now and just building up nice savings for a couple of projects on the house.

Wife would be pissed if I blew a £10k hole in that.

Maybe they'll be cheaper on the used market in the future but feels like they'll hold their value given how lovely / significant they are.

Srunning

At least double my budget but I keep checking here. They regularly have nice 60's-70's GS&KS models and a few nice examples recently sold.
Only a Gold capped one in at the moment though
https://past2presentwatches.com/collections/all

I think the days of GS being significantly cheaper on the used market is dead, which as a poor man makes me sad

So you mean it's time to invest

Outch, that’s nice..

I don’t really understand the seiko product line, too many product, too many limited edition, also price point aren’t that easy to understand, but this look good, reasonable diameter, great case, I assume good movement..

Expensive but tempting

I think you can divide GS's recent price hikes into two categories, those you can partly justify with the improved new generation movements, and those you can't. This one has probably the only hand-wound hi-beat (5hz) movement made entirely in-house in the world, plus one of the only brand new proprietary mechanical escapement designs produced in decades, if not centuries. It's a great movement, IMHO, even if it isn't hand finished.

So yeah, it's unpleasantly expensive but unlike the SJE093 was, I don't think it's overpriced relative to the rest of the range just because it's a limited edition. It's actually over a grand less than the non-limited titanium "birch" model that this movement debuted in earlier this year.

Not necessarily, I think most still are, but some remain in demand. The SBGW047, which this is quite similar to, has gained in value quite a bit. That was a recreation of the 44GS, similar approach, but came out on the thick side due to the modern movement.

The SBGW047

It's the catchy names I like the most.