Grand Seiko GMT with Spring Drive
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@austinguy23 Like the GT? The Grand Seiko name is quite significant in other parts of the world, particularly the far east. Older GSs fetch a good buck when they come up for sale.
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Fine watches...moreso than even Rolex, but the name recognition just isn't there. It's like paying $150,000 for a super high-end car that's a Ford.
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@bin31z I agree that it is different and new and a hybrid quarts/mechanical but I think it's an engineering marvel, which is what you pay for. From your logic, I can say that I don't even need a watch at all, I can just look at my phone to get the exact time, every time. Watches are meant to keep time and any improvement to keep better time is improving on the original sole purpose of a watch.
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Spring drive is so strange in my mind. Its like have two watches, one quartz and one mechanical, except when the mechanical watch is off, the quartz one automatically adjusts the mechanical one. Like, I can just do that myself and save 5 grand. Or you might as well just get a quartz watch. Makes no sense.
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Less than 1 second per month inaccuracy for this watch in my experience.
How about other owners?
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@houna67 I disagree. It is a quartz watch with a human battery.
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@schlusselmensch Just like saying that any car with electronically controlled fuel injection is just a crappy electric car :-/
The weakness of 100% mechanical watches is the accuracy because of the technology of the fork and balance wheel, Seiko have just addressed that. It is essentially a mechanical watch with electronic control of accuracy.
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@schlusselmensch Just like saying that any car with electronically controlled fuel injection is just a crappy electric car :-/
The weakness of 100% mechanical watches is the accuracy becaue of the technology of the fork and balance wheel, Seiko have just addressed that. It is essentially a mechanical watch with electronic control of accuracy.
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If you don't want to spend USD $6,000 for this Grand Seiko SD GMT version, look no further towards the Seiko Ananta Spring Drive GMT SNR019 which retails for USD $4,300 and can be had in the US for around USD $3,200.
These watches share the same exact GMT Spring Drive movement and the quality and finish, honestly, is very close to each other.
Save the $3,000 and go with the Ananta. I know I did :)
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This is the best watch i've seen !
no one has ever bought a breitling for the movement. they use modified ETAs and Valjouxs.
hageshiku 2 years ago 10
Wow nice, it got a bit out of traditional movements, but still great, soo smooth, soo acurate, nice!
iloveg25 2 years ago 6