How does Grand Seiko Spring Drive work and how does it compare to a traditional mechanical Watch? 🤔 #grandseiko #springdrive #shorts #grandseikospringdrive
@@spencerschulz626no. The Seiko prospect lx line is. You got that wrong brotha. The Seiko 5’s the 200 to 600 dollar ones don’t touch the Rolex. They have a 4r36 movement which isn’t bad. You can get it to even +/- 5 seconds a day.
@@spencerschulz626That is not true, Rolex is leagues ahead of seiko’s entry-level models. Rolex has excellent finishing. Saying this as a GS owner and seiko fanboy.
@@richardlyman2961 agreed. I love my Seiko 5 collection it’s awesome. But it’s nothing compared to my Daytona, (which I just sold to help finance a house along with my GS Snowflake 😢). And I too am a fanboy, nobody does a dial face like Grand Seiko! (Bracelet is good, not fantastic unlike even a cheap Rolex).
@@altgrey6531the only thing that can rival spring drive in terms of how it looks on the dial is the high frequency Bulova quartz movements - but once you look at the mechanics underpinning each movement, spring drive is revolutionary whereas the Bulova quartz movements despite being high frequency, are simply just quartz movement - spring drive is the perfect marriage of traditional mechanical movements with quartz.
Spring Drive is an impressive technology, but one of the reasons way I like mechanical watches, is because of the tick tock sounds. Of all the watches that I have owned, Longines has the best sound. If its quite in my office, I can hear it working arms length away. 😁
Resellers hate GS because of its resale value. Although GS is very innovative with their watches, their catalog is just too broad. People like the feeling of exclusivity hence the thirst for corny watches that you can only get through a waitlist.
SLGA021 owner here. The stated accuracy of springdrive is being modest. They say +/-1 second per day for 9R65 and +/-0.5 seconds per day for 9RA2 but in actual use case, mine ran at -0.5 seconds for 1 whole month. When i first got it, I wore the watch daily and checked the time every morning against atomic time app on my phone. I stopped checking after a month so i could use my other watches. who knows how much further it could have gone?❤
I own two for more than ten years in total. They both run +3 to +5 sec per month. I wear one of them almost daily and I only need to adjust it once per year.
@@chia-mingyang5804 magnificent! I haven't owned spring drive for more than 2 years so far since i am new to the hobby (started in 2021). I am curious to know how durable it is in the long term? The one you use almost daily, has it ran this whole 10 years without any servicing? And no problems at all? Thanks ☺️
SLGA009 here. +1 second per month tested over 4 months. The accuracy is something to behold. I don't ever have to think about it, and if I leave the time zone a couple times a year I'll end up zeroing it out naturally.
@@R023N they are equally complicated, the springdrive chronograph is much more complex than a lot of Patek chrono calibres in term of component count. But the usage of integrated circuit will make the lifespan short, it's literally disposable once the production of the IC ends as it cannot be fixed
gotta respect Seiko they gave us quartz then spring drive and then constant force tourbillion its like they keep on evolving and innovating just like Rolex
Rolex markets themselves well, that's about the only thing going for them. Their core catalog has barely changed in 60+ years. Sure the movements have improved, but they haven't really innovated much of anything except the marketing hype around the name.
They will have to send it back to japan. BUT i have read a few times they now have the ability to service spring drive in New Jersey for people living in the USA. I haven't looked into that for legitimacy though. My seiko AD in the philippines says they would have to mail any spring drive or high beat movement back to japan for servicing
I’m going to get me GS it’s undervalued compared to other big brands maybe they might license the Tech to Rolex for one watch design only that would be cool….
GS is like the toyota for watches. Their affordable, works reliably and built like a tank. I cant really wrap my mind why people buy 100k watches, I know its a statement piece, but a 10 dollar quartz clock is 1000 more times accurate and reliable than a hundred thousand rolex lol
This is a wind up electronic watch. I have a 70's Tissot one that uses coils like this but used a battery to power it not a generator like this Seiko. If you watch Mad Men S6 they talk about the Accutron electronic watch.
And yet a $40000 Rolex needs to be brought back in for maintenance 2-3 times a year because they don’t want to bother modifying the mechanics to solve a problem Seiko did 20 years ago.
It's a massive innovation over the traditional Swiss mechanical movements; but probably insignificant compared to quartz movement on a technical level, especially solar or motion powered quartz watches. The latter are still far superior in terms of accuracy, durability and consistency.
The people who are hating on it, are sore that their favorite brands could be stomped, by a cheap alternative. Grand Seikos Spring drive will always be superior to standard automatics.
Arguable.. It's expensive but you get some of the best features in watches and it's handmade personally, with rolex it's way more pricier and it's mass manufactured, they sell the brand not the watch.
Too me this is best watch in the world. And I get Seikos (they haw nothing with GS ), but I think that name seiko is not fear for warch whic is beter and acurate than all other mechanical. So name Seiko must goo, that kills that prestige superacurate brand,all I'm house exe and much more.
@@tesmat1243 not the same thing, although prices for mechanical watches are often too high and brand related. The point here is that the timekeeping of spring drive mechanism is dictated by a quartz circuit with a complex drive train but that makes it more a quartz than a mechanical watch
If grand Seiko is really this great. Why is it that only middle class owns them? No billionaire ever wore a single seiko in history and definitely no iconic person
@@Ted_Kenzoku Alas it seems that Grand Seiko don't have extra-Japan service centres. Imagine shipping your Lexus IS300 back to Japan for an oil change, with all the cost and uncertainty that that might involve. A rum state of affairs all told, but not entirely surprising since Seiko merely tolerate foreign interest in their products in much the same way as French wine producers. Me? My money stays in my pocket until a this particular global monolith with a lazy attitude to QC and customer service stops riding on the credulous wallets of fanboys. YMMV of course, but your mileage is doomed.
@@Ted_Kenzoku I'm not in the USA and the parallel is exactly valid. Your US service centre will not provide certain services for certain GS watches so off to Japan it must go. If a company can't be bothered to provide local service to factory specs, they can count my business out. As an aside, the Swiss are as bad. Most of the watch industry are lazy and complacent, preying on credulous, wealthy, lazy and complacent 'consumers'. My comparison to the car industry is valid and will remain so until proven otherwise.
That’s Quartz without a battery, there are electronically components and that defeats all the beauty of mechanical watch 😅 Apple Watch too have swiping hands
That's why GS is a BS NOW DAYS. if you really care about accuracy just get a digital casio. But a mechanical clock without the tik tak is worthless for me.
Seiko Spring Drive's accuracy is one second per day, it seems it is not very good in accuracy. There are many watches on the market can achieve accuracy 5 to 10 seconds per year.
