Grand Seiko’s Masterpiece Collection is in a league of its own within the Seiko ecosystem, and this new SBZ009 Spring Drive Limited Edition is a hand-engraved timepiece inspired, as many Grand Seikos are, by the passing seasons of forests and… Read More ›
Spring Drive
NEW: Grand Seiko Spring Drive 8 Day SBGD207
It’s a Grand Seiko, but not as you know it. It is also, as other watches we’ve covered over the past twelve months have been, part of the green trend. In a continuation of the celebration of 140 years of… Read More ›
NEW: Credor Eichi II Blue Edition
In 2021 the Seiko Watch Corporation will be celebrating 140 years and we can expect plenty of releases to mark the occasion. However, they are getting in early, with a few announcements having just been made about some of the… Read More ›
NEW: Seiko Presage Studio Ghibli Porco Rosso
Perhaps like me, you have been making your way through Netflix’s current Studio Ghibli promotion; watching some for the first time, reacquainting myself with others, and wondering which ones they’ll put up next. If you find yourself in self-imposed isolation… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : Seiko SBGA407 Grand Seiko Elegance Collection
Earlier this year we mentioned that 2019 marks two decades since the commercial launch of Seiko’s Spring Drive movement (a limited edition Credor in 1999), and that they have released a number of new models to mark the occasion. Today… Read More ›
BASELWORLD 2019 : Grand Seiko Spring Drive Thin Dress Series
To mark two decades since the commercial launch of their Spring Drive movement (a limited edition Credor in 1999) this year Seiko have announced a mini collection of new watches under the Elegance Collection called the Grand Seiko Spring Drive… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : Seiko Credor Eichi II
With last month’s opening of Australia’s first Seiko boutique in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building it seems the right time to share with you a watch that is one of Seiko’s premium pieces. It is only in recent years that the… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : the Grand Seiko Spring Drive GMT
Seiko’s Spring Drive technology has been featured on Horologium before. You can read more about the ‘hybrid’ mechanical-quartz Spring Drive movement at the previous posts and how technologically and mechanically significant a development it has been for Seiko, but this… Read More ›
HANDS-ON with Seiko’s rare Izul
Sometimes it feels as though the world of high-end Seikos is a niche ‘connoisseurs’ club where the assumption is that, by and large, the average watch enthusiast (let alone the average punter) has no idea of the existence of these… Read More ›
A look at a Galante Spring Drive
Seiko has a plethora watch lines at all price points, many of which don’t make it to Australia, and some which do, but only in a very limited form. Launched in 2009, the Galante line/ sub-brand is, like their Spring… Read More ›