Seiko Alpinist 1959, the perfect first affordable grail watch 

"That one watch... that will make your penis and wrist grow at least 1" in size... and fill all the holes in your life." Best line in any watch video ever... I died laughing. Well played sir

Enjoying your light hearted take on watch collecting. Funny how we attain our grail watch, only to replace it with one more expensive, then convince ourselves that at twice the price, it really is good value. Anyway have a great week and look forward to your next video

Dude, seiko should pay you a commission . Because you just sold me on this watch! 😊

It's a spectacular watch and my favorite Seiko model. I went a little crazy and was able to get all 5 colorways over the years. The additional 5" is a little much tho. Great review as usual!

Congratulations on your new Alpinist ! I got my champagne dial a few weeks ago, love it ! Enjoy New subscriber

Very nice vid! The 1959 is in the lead for a „best buddy watch“ with my best lifetime friend, intending to buy each other this watch as a proof for our relationship. Stunning watch with heritage.

Another great video, Carl. Congrats on the grail and bagging a wife who buys you cool watches😂😂

I was already in love with the Alpinist 1959, but your review was even better than the watch. Really enjoyed it!

Seiko does great with case and watch faces are amazing on some but bracelets are lacking especially since the prices are rising and rising . No taper , pins and collars, 19 and 21 mm end links and hollow end links are unexcusable in my opinion

Keep doing what you're doing. Make more watch content. You're funny, insightful, authentic. This watch is a killer. The only thing that turned me off is the 19mm lug width. That means I can't easily replace the bracelet. Otherwise, I would have gotten it. Seiko has done this open barn door concept on other clasps. One could park an Austin Mini with fully inflated tires in the gap between the clasp and the bracelet of my SPB155. Same with my Sarb035. I stopped wearing the Sarb on its original bracelet when I got stung by a bee whose swarm had built a nest in there. Anyway, keep it up. You're doing good things.

Do you ever find it hard to set the minute hand exactly on the marker with this? I noticed that the first time I set the time with the gray variant (SPB243) and that impression never went away. Mine also ran +25 spd unless I set it on its side every night so it doesn't gain 10 seconds overnight. It's long gone now.

Uncle Straps sells a clasp replacement for the Speedtimer. I have a hunch it would also work with this Alpinist. I put it on my Speedtimer and it definitely helps the issue. Doesn’t complete fix it completely. But it’s more tolerable for sure. I can tell the difference.

Such a cool watch!!!

Thats my most expensive watch, an absolute banger (i have the grey sunburst one), with a leather strap is an absolute piece, the steel bracelet is not top for comodity (in my case is perfect, lucky me) but is very solid and well built. Quality/price is a 10

You can replacement clasps from San Martin and have on the fly micro adjustment - although the clasp is fairly large because of it.

You might check out the uncle strap clasp cover for $12. You can fit it to the bracelet without too much fuss and while it doesn’t fix the gap, it does give you another microadjust.

I think it may be the best on Earth for the price and may be as good as any for any price .

I feel like this watch would look 10x better with a leather strap. The problem with Seiko, and even their GS watches, is that the bracelets are usually the weakest parts of the watch. I mean they're comfortable but at a certain price point I would think they should include easily adjustable micro-adjustments. But like you said, 19mm is not ideal. 18 or 20 would've been great.

Did you ever find a satisfactory clasp? I am one of the few who can't get a proper fit, either my hand falls off from lack of bloodflow, or it dangles around like a rattlesnake on my wrist... This would probably be my daily if it only fit me well.

The clasp problem was intentional. They want to make sure the watch isn’t so good that you won’t buy more watches.

2:50 grand seiko has this issue too, the clasp pop out but not as much as this model, it's why i didnt get this model range in the end, the short comings are too obvious, and i have too many 6R seiko already

There is no watch that can fill void in your heart. Except grail, that thing make me feel better

im just dying for a GMT version of one of these

I dumped the bracelet, massive clasp gap and only 2 microadjusts so I couldn't get an acceptable fit. I prefer it on leather, but Seiko really should really up their bracelet game at this price point.

Love the comments on the clasp 😂

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Really a nice looking watch. Just put a strap of some description on it.

I have the same watch and bought a 300 Euro exotic strap for IT which matches the loom perfectly ;) maybe crazy but It Looks very dressy with it. Taper on the bracelet and 1mm less thickness would be nice otherwise the perfect watch for me

The Alpinist has been on my grail list since I first saw it. This one is stunning.

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Regarding the clasp and the hole. What hole? Just wear it like shown at 3:30. There is no hole, as far as I can see. 😁

I don't like green, but if it's Alpinist, it's green. You can buy my soul with that green. But it's nice anyway.

If they updated these with a thinner case (by thinning the caseback) i would be all over it

Imagine your first grail watch being misaligned.

What’s your new grail? How much more are you going to spend on it? 🤣

Why should I buy this. Why not swiss

I was eyeing the blue dial with vertical stripse quite a lot, it is amazing! My pet peeve is the crystal with a lot of distortion, this is actually single dome crystal (double dome does not have that magnitude of distortion) and it catches a lot of reflection on both sides of the crystal and obscures the dial quite a bit. I don’t know why Seiko insists on using it when the dd or flat would look so much better. Anyway thats just me, congrats on your Grail, I am hoping to finish watch collecting (for a few years at least) by getting Christopher Ward Atoll (white), that watch kinda checks all the boxes for me in a similar way the Alpinist does for you. Fingers crossed I chase the demon out of me with that one! 😂