Category: GRAND SEIKO

Owner review: Grand Seiko Diver SBGA229

When I first started looking at Grand Seiko and their Spring Drive watches, it wasn’t the Snowflake that caught my attention, it was a large dive watch with the reference SBGA029. Even though I had seen many black dive watches before, this stuck in my head. I searched for every post with this watch that…
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23/08/2022
Owner review: Grand Seiko SBGW231

The Grand Seiko SBGW231 is part of my watch collecting “hobby” (reads: sickness)story. Like many, my obsession was spiralling out of control and my appetite for buying more watches grew by the day, I started consciously putting some roadblocks to prevent myself from acquiring new timepieces. At the time, Grand Seiko had been taking the…
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09/11/2021
Owner Review: Grand Seiko SBGA413

A short while ago Grand Seiko announced that their Seasons Collection of four watches (two Spring Drive, two hi-beat) would now be available globally instead of being exclusive to the US market. I wrote at the time that Grand Seiko shouldn’t have launched something as a regional exclusive and used that as a selling point,…
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29/10/2021
Owner Review: Grand Seiko SBGX265

Many members of the “watchfam” and several close colleagues of mine are keen to own a high end automatic or mechanical watch as their grail. Beating all odds I choose a different path and found myself falling in love with a Grand Seiko SBGX265. At the heart of the Grand Seiko SBGX265 is a 9F62…
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19/10/2021
Owner Review: Grand Seiko Snowflake SBGA211

As a newbie tentatively taking his first steps into the world of watches about two years ago, as soon as I saw, read and heard about the Grand Seiko Snowflake SBGA211, I felt the need to own one almost immediately. And while that desire had been immediate, it took me months of reflection to understand…
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31/08/2021
Owner Review: Grand Seiko SBGR305 – Giving in to Peer Pressure

The past few years have seen Grand Seiko riding the big wave – maybe not of popularity but certainly of increasing market penetration here in the UK and getting significant social media publicity through the wannabe influencers. As a consumer, I view their efforts with some admiration albeit I sometimes struggle with some of the…
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12/04/2021
Owner Review: Grand Seiko GMT SBGM235

Watches tell the time, some also tell the month, date, and even moon phase. For the Grand Seiko GMT SBGM235, it is so very much more than that, it is a piece of art. This piece was released as part of the celebration of the Calibre 9S 20th year anniversary and limited to 1000 pieces…
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02/01/2021
Grand Seiko SBGM221 GMT Review

OK, let me start with my biases. I’m a three-hand guy. Not really, of course, though as a watch addict that would be pretty great. What I mean is that I love simple watches. I have a few divers and chronos but what I really love is a perfect no-date three hander. If I’m going…
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02/01/2021
Owner Review: Grand Seiko Snowflake SBGA011

The Grand Seiko Snowflake SBGA011 (and the current model SBGA211) is one of the brands most iconic modern models. This model is most famous for its dial which has texture like that of the fresh granular windswept snow that falls on the mountains of Shinsu, along with the Zaratsu polishing that all Grand Seiko are…
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02/01/2021
Owner Review: Grand Seiko Blue Snowflake SBGA407

Mere seconds spent with this piece is a dead giveaway that it comes from Grand Seiko’s Elegance range. The sleek, sharp hands and equally as disciplined minute markers ooze style. Released in June 2019, the Grand Seiko Blue Snowflake (nicknamed the Skyflake) comes in at 40.2mm in diameter and 12.8mm in thickness. Whilst it does…
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02/01/2021