the dial is also not textured, it's flat and the pattern is printed and it's some sort of optical magic that makes it look like it's textured.. i think i've seen a photo of one of these taken out of the case and it was very confusing since i also thought the dial has a textured pattern..
@@RelativeTime i can't remember where i've seen it (reddit maybe) but if you open it up you can clearly see it when you tilt it at an angle (the light will reflect just like on a flat glossy surface)
Everything else I wear, ring, stick pin, cuff links, have emeralds so this is a perfect accompanying piece that will work in just about any situation. Just have to find the right band and I'll be all set. Thank you for your review!
The stock strap looks quite good with the watch and gets comfortable in a week. No needs to throw it off and buy a new one. Besides, the dial is gorgeous regardless of the price. Vario or Bambino are nothing like it. I think Seiko has gone upmarket because they have realised that no-one is producing original dials like they do.
I do love a vintage style piece. In fact I've just reviewed one myself... Albeit at a far more budget price point. This one is definitely all about that gorgeous dial though. Seiko really do now how to make stunning dials, that's for sure. It does look great on that Vario strap. Great review as always Shane.
Agree with everything you say about this watch. I have had mine for several months and regard it as more of a casual wear rather than a dress watch. The guilloche dial is stunning and wouldn't look out of place on a Grand Seiko. I can't stop looking at it when it's on wrist. Never even tried the stap on, just threw it straight in the trash. It's that bad. This watch is a keeper, as I will never tire of admiring that dial. Great review, as always Shane.
@@RelativeTime I alternate between a tan ostrich leather and a medium brown tooled leather. Both look good. Really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work!
Call me weird but I like the strap. It feels good when wearing it and hardly can feel the watch being worn. I noticed in one of your shots this watch with a black band, hot! I might have to try that as it really made the watch look rich. Owned mine for 8 months now and the watch is very accurate at keeping time as it only loses 3 seconds per day. Very acceptable to me.
I have the exact one. When I wear it I feel special. It is a very beautiful watch. I like more than my Longines heritage flagship is it 4 times the price.
I always saw these watches as not so much a dinner date (black tie affair) dress watch, not they can't hold their own. But I feel they would be more at home at a cafe brunch, BBQ/ pool party kind of dress (smart casual). Especially with all those fun colors. I love the Mojito and the Negroni. Both are on my list of wants but can't make up my mind which color I want more. Great video Shane, beautiful macro shots as always.
Agree. I don't see them as formal dress watches. They are more fun casual everyday watches for the most part. If I'm going to a wedding or 'dinner date', I'll wear my classic Longines.
Thanks for another nice video Shane! Seiko lulls me to sleep with endless variations on a theme, but then I end up missing the one amazing one they bring out, like their Ginza! Aargh. Lol
so this has always been my back-up if i never managed to snatch up a ``Matcha`` cocktail time, which i did. Amazing looking dial and reliable movement. Awesome video aswell!
Great review of this watch, I have been obsessing over it for a month or so now but it was great to see different strap options for it as as you said the supplied strap looks shocking! I have actually seen a picture with the srpe45 on a black leather strap and to me it looked the business as it made the dial look darker. I’ve also seen it on a leather nato which I liked. Thanks for the video, I enjoyed it. 👍
I have the Negroni, to which your general comments also apply. I completely agree with your views on the straps but, as you say, this can easily be remedied. I have several Seiko dress type watches, all of which I like, but for some reason very rarely seem to wear. A very enjoyable review as usual.
This is a little watch that wants to be seen, great design and a simple watch case takes nothing away from the dial Not too sure what strap suits this one best, I quite like the Ostrich strap, defo din the original Great review 👍
I started with the burgundy dial, then bought the blue one and the grey-brown one. The pink, yellow and light blue are not my cup of tea, but the green one will certainly be mine one of these days.
I like it! I’ve sworn off adding any more NH/4R movements to my collection… However, the size and thickness That is usually driven up by those movements seems to have been crammed in a very nice package this time… Thumbs up for Seiko on this one… And I haven’t said that much over the last year and a half….Thanks for the great review!
As an owner, the strap isn’t as bad as it’s made out to be in this video though personally I wish it was a darker brown. I do not like the domed crystal because it warps the view of the edges of the watch and looks and feels cheaper than sapphire. All accounted for, it’s a nice watch that I’ll wear happily, and have received compliments on, though agree with the video that in a few ways it just doesn’t have a certain “je ne sais quoi.”
I feel you on liking the “more complicated dress watches” Im wearing a bambino gen2 V2 with a creme dial and blued hands as I watch this. Great minds think alike 🔥
It is a gorgeous watch for sure as is the the other colours but I do prefer the SRPF 43J1 Roasted Green Tea Cocktail Time , it's dial is breathtaking ...nice review as usual.
I love this one and its on the list to get. I just got the one they call the Midnight Mockingbird and its a nice looking version of the cocktail with more dial extras like a power reserve which I get not everyone will like but for me it looks great. The strap on it is a tad better than the one on the Mojito at least. Also have the limited Australian Lark which I just love the dial texture.
I just bought it. I am constantly worried about scratching it. And the strap is mediocre. I am going to get a custom black leather. Rest the watch is absolutely beautiful 😍
A beautiful dial, and that's about it. I have a dress watch with a naff strap, mineral crystal and NH35, but with 100m water resistance; assembled in Austria ( practically Swiss!). Fantastic review, Shane. Cheers 🍻!
I had it for few weeks but besides the strap (awful) it didn’t click w me, so I let it go. Honestly Shane Seiko is not convincing me day after day… well it is just me. Great video amigo.
Shane I love mojitos but just not the Seiko kind. While the dial may produce some stunning renderings nothing else about the watch compels me to place one on my wrist. Thanks fore the video, I always enjoy your content.
0:18 its large for a lot of people, but for big people like me with 8 inch wrists its ideal! This watch looks borderline small on your wrist (looks beautiful though on you), on guys with big wrists and or forearms it will look comically small.
Hi Shane. The deployant clasp has the tongue of the strap pointing away from the wearer. You could ask Dave what he knows about this, but I think that it might have been Teddy Baldassarre who pointed out that actually having the tongue pointing towards you was considered rude in Japanese culture, so it has to point away. My Alpinist arrived like this and after hearing this interpretation as to why (which may be apocryphal) I've left it as it is and found it easier to use as a result. It's a beautiful watch and great review as always. 👍
maybe a more redeeming of this model is the turquoise version. might be a good alternative for people on the Tiffany blue craze fad but dont wish to spend 30K buying a rolex OP in aquamarine blue which retails are only about 6K USD
to my surprise I actually found the blue moon's dial rather underwhelming in person; it looked better on film. I wonder if these with this particular pattern are a bit more impressive. The hardlex dome makes it a no-go for me anyway... it will scratch and then you won't notice the dial but instead the scratch that's ruining it. Hardlex has a fine look to it but for such an exposed bubble it's just not suited.
Short answer, nope. Owned one and it was just not the same in person. The best way I can describe it is that the dial felt gimmicky in the flesh. Others may love it but it wasn't for me. I ultimately ended up returning it and bought a matcha instead. That dial does impress, both in pictures and in person.
@@The_Ludd1te Good looking out for the feedback. Matcha looks cool... if I didn't have so many olive green dial watches already haha... I still can't deal with bubbled mineral or hard-lex anymore though, have one bubbled mineral and it scratched within a week's worth of wear, good thing it was an inexpensive quartz piece. It's one thing if a tool or field watch is scuffed up but when the point is that it looks pretty for dressiness... I kinda think watch geeks get screwed over by the fact that the average Joe will think hardened mineral is better than acrylic, when it totally isn't in the case of bubbles. In the case of these cocktail times, I wonder if acrylic would be as suited as sapphire, though, for clarity's sake with those dials...
You say "it will scratch". No, it won't. I have had an Omega Speedmaster classic since 1991 and a Junghans Max Bill chrono both with a hesalite domed crystal. I have worn them very regularly and still do. Not a scratch on either. So it's the wearer who gets the scratches on the crystal, not the hardlex....
@@jjakiefte2165 If scratches occur on hardlex for a significant percentage of hardlex owners, as they do, then it's a general problem and it WILL happen. It's cool you don't scratch up watches but I assure you people do, with pretty normal use. Also, why bring up hesalite? I'm all for hesalite... more acrylic please
@@yoinkhaha Why bring up hessalite? Because if there's one material that's not scratch resistant it's hessalite, I would have thought that was obvious.
That beautiful dial notwitshtanding, the fact that they cheaped out and put a hardlex crystal on this is really disappointing. For what they're charging for this, sapphire wouldn't just be nice. It's necessary.
I own the Big Clock colour version (blue). It's absolutely gorgeous, but for what you get, very overpriced. I put mine on a Milanese, and it suits it perfectly. Great review as usual Shane
I was gonna pass up this watch, because the images provided by Seiko are criminally bad. I was looking at the other Cocktail watches (the green especially) as my next dress watch, but dang i really like this. Seriously tho, whoever at Seiko is in charge of choosing images for their websites needs to be fired
On the contrary, i like the stock strap with its colour and smooth shiny lacquar effect, very retro. But may be in real person the strap is not as interesting?
@@RelativeTime It really is! I got into hobby couple yrs ago and your channel has only strengthened my admiration for horology. I appreciate you helping me decide on the mojito, you're a man of integrity and true watch enthusiast. I thank you good sir 👍 lol
A great review as always and particularly two points no one talks about: oversized Seiko logo and boring case design. Unlike not using high quality materials such as a sapphire crystal, these issues ruin the overall design. Until you mentioned, it looked beautiful but also off for some reasons I couldn’t express. Thank you for your great observations!
Got a few run of the mill watches now, best watch I have being the Tissot PRX,( yes it’s quartz ) I’m really loving the look of this as my first automatic, anyone had it as a first? How are you finding it?
Like the dial for sure but for the price I know you can buy 3 watches on AliEx and they will all have better specs and strap. Lately I feel Seiko is losing its way. As collectors, perhaps our standards are too far above the average consumer. I find so many larger corps copy each other thinking they have the "real" market research... maybe they just copy their mistakes. Great review as always.
Hi there, I recently bought one of these and was wondering if you could give me any advice on a new strap please in terms of size? I looked at your recomendations but I am in Spain so it might be a bit difficult to find those particular straps. Please could you tell me if there is a specific size I should buy for it? Thanks!
Regarding the strap being on "backwards": I've read somewhere that this is one of those typical Japanese cultural things where you do not put the pointy part of a strap outwards toward other people... Dave of Just the Watch might be able to confirm to be true or BS 😃
Someone else mentioned that as well. I think it might of originated with a video Teddy put out. Although I'll ask Dave if he can figure out anything. The only that doesn't make sense to me, is that if you buy a Seiko with a non-deployant clasp, it's still the other way. So wouldn't that also be considered rude?
"The best thing about the strap is that it's quick release...so you can quickly take it off and throw it in the trash." 😂 Question: I don't understand why there is a set standard case size for dress watches (or cocktail watches)...why wouldn't the case size be determined by the size of the wrist?
I have the Mojito and the Negroni for about 6 months. Yup, the stock straps are rubbish. The Mojito really needs a lot of light to really shine, literally and figuratively. The Negroni less so, but it's far from a strap monster. I don't wear my watches to impress others, but I always get a comment or two when I wear then.
@@RobinsWatchJourney maybe, probably won't be another big one until 40k. Unless I get a 3rd party to sponsor. The channel really doesn't make enough to do more than a couple a year. The 30k giveaway was about 2 months worth of RU-vid revenue as it is.
There are a couple ways to do it, either record as normal and speed it up, or do a time-lapse video. Which is what I do. That's where the camera only captures an image ever couple of seconds, then stitches them together like a video.
Did you try looking into newest Seiko 5s? Especially the SRPE Models aka DressKX ones are amazing. They kind of have a Tudor Black Bay 36 vibe going on. If you're looking into divers then Seiko Samurai or Turtle are top notch.
