So. I want a Grand Seiko now..... I've been won over to Grand Seiko 

I mean! I don’t disagree! 🙈🙈

*Grand Seiko has surpassed VC, PP & APs prices for roughly equivalent watches, yes. Design is subjective, what & who is surpassed cannot be measured. In movements and finish, you are right.*

GS like Omega and their coaxial movements just needs to shrink their movements to make them fit thinner and more elegant cases. Also make better clasps and bracelets. Hard to see this not happening in the future. When they do maybe it will be a mini quartz crisis all over again.

@@horaciofrancomisa7088 *: GS sells every watch it makes. There is no incentive to make skinny cases. If you want a thin one, look at Credor. Big bucks but thin. Bear in mind, the thicker a quality watch, the more robust.*

@Joe Skeptical I'm not sure they sell everything they make but regardless making thinner watches with better bracelets will only be an improvement for me. The clasp however really needs improvement when compared to leading swiss brands.

Omg this is sooo true. It's just so dang beautiful! And the more I'm watching videos on GS and researching them, I just have so much respect for how much work, detail and love they put into creating beautiful watches

I own the sbgw231, it’s amazing! I can’t stop staring at it.

Yes this is very true!! I nearly added this detail in! But I thought enough have said it that I didn’t need to! 🙈 but it’s probably sometjing I should have added!

Competition drives huge innovation and better products and services. That’s why there so little innovation in government monopolies like social medicine.

Oh man, I keep thinking I neeeed to get a Snowflake in for review! What a WATCH! And I so agree, you can't go wrong with that spring drive, or just GS watches on the hole!

White Birch SLGA009

SLGH011 or the Shōsho imo are absolute killers

Spring drive is cool but if I got a GS I would probably want one of their automatic high beats or manual wind watches

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You know! You are tipping me over the edge now. I BLOODY NEED A GS!

@@BrittPearceWatches Go for the SLGA009!

i've got a lovely habring2, 200 watches made per year all by a master watch maker in Richard Habring and that makes special but when all is said and done , it does matter if they made a million a year. i'd only have one that was mine. I have a GS and A rolex explorer and for me the overall package of the explorer means if I could choose one it would be the explorer. It's still superblh finished, and one of the best brackets and clasps in the business. If grand seiko had an explorer/sub quality bracelet then maybe. But they are miles off

You know, I couldn't agree more on your Nomos & GS thoughts! I think they are both brands that bring in the true enthusiast!

Oooooh Nomos I like. But those long lugs ...

@@kelechinobi3085 you’re brain gets used to the lugs quickly, and then you love the look & fit. I felt the same way before I bought mine

You know! This whole thing is perfectly said… it’s just FUN! And life is short. Collect what you love. You have this one life, and if these weird little trinkets (watches) spark joy… GO ON THEN! 😜

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Hahaha. u can keep the prize ;)

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Whaaaat! No way. What a story! I’m just about ready to drink the kool aid!

Love the 269! I aspire to add this watch to my collection one day!

Oh YASSS! Pure class on the wrist!

GS will probably be my next serious watch purchase I bought two “expensive watches” so far but the next one probably won’t come for awhile

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SBGA413 is my holy grail

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I get a bit frustrated with Grand Seiko, Seiko, and other watch brands. Their new watches each year are usually bigger, around 40mm, with only a few (if there are) between 35-38mm. They don't cater to smaller wrists and/or feminine aesthetics as much. Some of the Seiko Presage does it nicely for a more feminine aesthetic, but it's limited. I'd like to buy a GMT or diver, but I don't want 40mm. 35-38mm is better for me.

hello. could you possibly post a video of a couple wrist turns of your shun bun. just to see how the light hits it. Ive been heavily considering one

@@eleanorchan872 You can definitely find a GS with colorful and lighter tone dials. But yea I feel you on finding timepieces that will fit smaller wrists. If you’re into divers, Oris makes a 36.5mm Aquis “upcycle”. It also wears smaller due to the lug to lug

@@davidcoronado5512 I don’t have a webcam and my best camera (latest GoPro) is being borrowed by my brother haha. But I will say that the pinkish hue shows much less in person than you typically see on videos and photos; I think when it’s being shot on camera/film, people are intentionally getting that right angle and light to bring the 🌸 out of the dial.

@@rich2579 thank you for the suggestion. I'll check it out. I am not against divers but I don't know if I'll buy a diver as I'll rarely use it for the intended purpose. I know that is not why one has to buy a watch but I can use it the money for other watches. That being said, ooh this is a very pretty watch. I'll go find a dealer that has it in stock to see if I like it in person. The Hamilton Ventura has captured my attention lately too.

LOLLLL NOOOO but I was hoping someone would notice that joke!! ;) I always try to hide little joke nuggets!

@@BrittPearceWatches 🤣😂🤣 lmao thanks for saving me the embarrassment of texting my AD how much morning wood was!

@@BrittPearceWatches I immediately thought of Grieg, I do not get the joke ... :-I.

Thank you for sharing that bit of watch history. As someone who has only been a watch nerd for a couple of years, this is a great summarization of how the industry was shaped over the past 50 or so years.

This made me read a lot about watch history. I can understand why Seiko want to move Seiko up market instead of Orient due to Seiko's history. Seiko is really old. It was created by a clock maker who was apprenticed since 13 in 1881. Seiko won the Gevena Observatory taking the 4th to 10th place with Mechanical Movements. It was actually the Swiss companies who took 1st, 2nd, 3rd places with their quartz movements which is crazy because I thought Japan was all about quartz and the Swiss was all about mechanical. The Swiss watch companies didnt think quartz was needed according to wiki. Seiko was the first production quartz "the astron" which as much as a car at the time. I learned something about Hamilton too. It was the first battery powered watch and it also made the first digital watch which surprised me since Hamilton is known for their field watches. Orient was made in 1950s and made a lot of luxury mechanical watches before merging with Seiko. Orient stopped due to the fact it will conflict with Grand Seiko.

​@@alexlilano1931 Pretty much Alex. The Wiki must have been written by the Swiss marketing board if it says that. The "Swiss was all about mechanical" is _very_ much Swiss marketing from the 90's on, but really pushed in their marketing in the last twenty years, along with slowly upping their prices to increase their margins even further. You can simply charge more for a mechanical movement watch. A lot more. It's got "soul" y'know... Now that's OK with an actually hand finished Patek movement for example, but for movements and watches produced on an industrial scale in their _millions_ per year like Omega and Rolex? Not so much. Adjusted for inflation/wages/house prices an Omega Speedmaster is five times the price it was when men were walking on the moon wearing them. Rolex prices are similar. In the 1970's a Rolex Submariner cost a good bit less than the average months wages. If you want to get an idea what a "good watch" used to cost back in the day, brands like Tissot and Longines and Seiko would be close. The truth is the Swiss invested heavily in quartz. The Seiko Astron was first to market, but only just and in tiny numbers. Within months after the Astron you could walk into a shop and buy a Swiss Beta21(or Longines UltraQuartz) from many Swiss brands. All top of the range. Omega invested massively in the new tech, throwing millions at it. They developed a "high beat" quartz movement with a frequency of 2.4Mhz and released the most accurate wristwatch up to that time(12 seconds a year) and certified them as "Marine Chronometers". The main players in the Swiss industry were doing very well from quartz, though very few acknowledge it today in their advertising. However the Swiss pretty much ignored digitals until it was too late. And when they got on board with that trend their offerings were too expensive and out of date by at least a year. It's long been my opinion that it wasn't a "Quartz crisis" it was a "Digital crisis".

@@MrGrentch I read America and Japan went fully into digital with Timex, Casio, and many others.

Longines has brand new HiBeat movements too, the "Ultrachron". And are cheaper than GS, around 3800EUR RRP.

Not all heroes wear capes! ;) Thank you so so much!

Right?! I love that red dial! Absolute show stopper! Thank you so so much :)

Thank you for al the efford! You rock. And i love your humor. Just a little crazy and i like that!

Oh you’re much too kind, as always John! GS definitely isn’t for everyone!

There is a reason for that, there are very few authorized dealers. I too have been interested but have not had any luck in the seeing particular pieces in person. I buy watches because I love them but clearly grand Grand Seiko does not have a strong resale value, if that matters to someone. Sometimes you fall in love with a watch and then you fall out of love and you'd like to not have to take a beating if you want to sell it. Just another perspective.

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Whaaaat! Thank you so much! :)

oh WHAT A WATCH! And you cannot argue with that accuracy!

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You know, this is a really excellent thing to bring up!! And I gotta say, the thickness always turned me OFF. But when I was wearing that shunbun, I really didn't think of it too much! But that's also because I have 3 brain cells and I don't think of anything too much ;)