This Is The Best Diver Seiko Makes (Under $500) [The King Turtle] SRPE03 

The Turtle is the true heir to the SKX's throne. The King Turtle just takes things to an even greater level. I love my Samurais too it must be said. Nice review.

I've owned this watch for going on 2 years now and I'm still in love with it. I own 8 Turtles in total, and the SRPE03 has been and still is my favorite of the whole bunch. Nice to see you finally have the chance to review one, Jory. 👍

I have the original manta ray dial version and i was so excited when it arrived in the mail. Im not a huge dive watch fan, and i don't wear the king turtle all the time but whenever i pop it on i fall in love again 🐢

I have the Dark Manta King Turtle, and i cannot stress how much i enjoy it. dial is gorgeous, i love the Save The Ocean initiative, and it’s very well built for the price point. i paid 450 at a local authorized seiko retailer (they marked it down because i told them about the gray market deals hovering slightly below 400).

I have that watch. I was wearing it all day yesterday and admiring it and now I see you reviewing it and confirming my appreciation.

5:50 I recently purchased a Seiko Turtle "Grenade". I love it, and the crown on mine turns quite smoothly.

I agree - I have 2 - the black and green grenades. Both bezels fine, both cyclops fine. Great price. Love them. The only reason I don't wear them every day is because I also love my Seiko Arnie......

Picked mine up for £470 at my local, love it. Aqquired a few nice straps to change it up.

Awesome review!!!! I own one and Ian so proud!!! Beautiful King Turtle 🐢

I just bought the king turtle manta ray this morning unbelievable value. Ceramic bezel also

Really enjoy your channel brother…thanks for spending your time on it.

I own this watch and love it. You’re right about the crown, every time I set it, it feels like I’m going to cross thread it. Also, I hated the magnifier but it wasn’t hard to remove it and it completely changed the watch (for the better) IMO

Yeah this one rules. Been thinking about it for a while. Love the turtle family in general and they wear smaller than the case diameter would lead you to believe. The dial is insane and it’s a tank.

Love me a good Seiko. I need more of them on my life.

Just got one two months ago, same color but with steel band and blue numbers on right side on bezel. it's a beautiful watch I wear it every day :)

I’ve been watching your channel for a while now and wanted to say thanks for the great content. Coincidentally, I just ordered this watch today and was really glad to see your video on it a few minutes ago. I also picked up a Hamilton X Wind Automatic (non-chrono) today.

Great review Jory, I have this model, it is actually the SPRE05, the SPRE03 is the black dial version. Also, you forgot to add that the bezel insert is ceramic. It is my new favorite and I wear it more than my Rolex Sub.

Good post! I agree! Thanks.

I love my Seiko turtle! out of my collection I wore it the most until I finally got myself a Seiko alpinist now I cant seem to take the alpinist off.

If we're talking about Turtles I gotta give a shout out to the sbdy015 (the jdm version of the srp777 with the kanji date wheel). The lack of sapphire glass is unfortunate but as it's intended to be a diver / tool watch, I think the ceramic bezel and cyclops lens really throws off the vibe of the piece. The sbdy015 is such a great piece, can't say enough about it. Go buy one

Thanx T3..... Nicely done!

Parcel came in today and this video just dropped as well! Watching this while wearing my king turtle 🐢 ☕ 😍

It's a happy day when I find Snyder's pretzel pieces on sale at my local supermarket. Cheddar cheese is my #1, just slightly edging out honey mustard. I still buy about 1/4 in honey mustard, to guard against cheddar fatigue. If cheddar fatigue were to set in... well, let's not talk about that, shall we?

Spot on. Love my blue dial version.

I just ordered one from Seiko yesterday, 600.00. Sold my 3 Rolex's and Deep Blue watches and some Vostok Europe, I had a collection, now Seiko is getting my business, this color caught my eye, had to have it.

Great insightful review ! I absolutely adore my SRP03(black face). It’s become my favorite. I find myself not wearing my IWC, my omega as this is so comfortable on my wrist. Thinking of getting the green grenade.

Bought my green dial about a year ago. Excellent watch…especially with a Strapcode bracelet.

A complete masterpiece in my mind..would die happy if I owned one...

Have one and love it even over the MM300 I used to have.

Agreed 👍 brotha with the turtle but the Capitan Willard is my favorite Seiko right now. I also love the Seiko tuna Marine master and Flight Master now I hope for a Commander Pogue recreation from Seiko. Faithful to the original

I love the “candy bar” cyclops. I have it on my Seiko PADI Monster.

I’m soooo Jonesing for one of these. I have a smaller wrist so I thought it would be to big, but I tried one on and it’s a really good fit. This is definitely the next watch I buy.

Glad to see you reviewing the King Turtle (SRPE03).. I have this watch and love it. I currently have it on a Vintage Bond (Red,Black,Green Stripes) Nato strap, it looks gorgeous.

I purchaded SRPE35K1 last year King Samurai. A great watch as well!!!

i got my king samurai, with save the ocean team, quite cheap, with the silicon strap. that level of seikos is quite good, i thinking in geting the padi variant,

I totally agree and I also wanna nominate the Seiko samurai it’s built with the same specs and it’s about the same price ! It just depends on taste which one you like better

Just noticed that the X is a styled out P and S, cool. Smart watch 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I got the King samurai with the white dial and it looks like a million bucks, love it still my favorite daily watch

I took the candy bar cyclops off, makes it so much better. One of my all time favs!

Awesome content. Follow the content from Brazil. Sucess brother

Agreed. It’s dope!

I owned this watch, and its pretty accurate, love the day date magnifier b'coz someday its a big help to me when my eyes are getting older

Just picked it up in 2024... loving it.

Great video Jory. Have one of these. Such an impressive watch for the money. Can’t really find anything with the same specs and Seiko’s cache for the same price.

Perfect timing. Sold mine 2 weeks ago! Only owned it a week. It’s a great watch but doesn’t compare to the Willard reissues (nor should it for the price) so I ended up moving it on.

To each their own. I love the magnifier on my King Manta,and my King Turtle. Great video on a great watch!

i wear mine just about every day to work and it looks it, it defiantly has become one of my beater watches. they should have called it Tank not Turtle. I'm a watch guy, i prolly have all the department store brands. lol i also have a few high ends. love autos and mechanical. nice job on the video, u can tell u put time into making it, thank u for your time.

I have lots of watches but this KT is my daily. I wear it with an Uncle Seiko H-Bar bracelet, which adds to the early-seventies vibe (but the OEM bracelet is substantial and attractive, too). The sapphire crystal and ceramic bezel are basically scratch-proof and the lume is typical Seiko-bright. I even like the cyclops as my old eyes have trouble seeing most date windows nowadays. Like every Seiko made in the last ten years, the bezel isn’t centered, but neither is my blue Willard and that cost 3 times as much. Why is this so difficult for them to get right? This KT is almost the perfect daily wear watch.

A brilliant review Jory, i bought one on the basis of it, OK and a couple of other reviews, but it is what Seiko were known for, VFM watches that just ran and ran. The design is a modern classic Dive/divers watch and is a great replacement for the now sadly out of production classic SKX Divers 200's with the updates/mods that were all that was/were really needed?

I have that Watch, I have it on today...I also agree with you about Orient I have two and think they are under the radar when it comes to good watches!.....keep up the great videos!

I love this watch, but I’m biased as Ive owned this watch for nearly two years, still amazing, super comfy wear, ridiculously hard to get hold of in the uk (400 mile round trip to get mine) and takes a real beating.

I picked up my King turtle on ebay brand new free shipping from Time Spot for $324.00. Shipped to Seattle wa in 6 days! Not to shabby.

good looking watch!

Hello, could you suggest a couple of tough and heavy-duty watches that can take anything that is thrown at them? My wrist is big enough for most watches

My dark manta ray king turtle also feels like it'll cross thread and it gets stucks when screwing down a lot of the time. I love this watch and it was a gift but I have a love and hate relationship with this thing because of it. I'm a highschool student who just started working this summer so I ain't made of money but I bought a namokis case and a signed crown to hopefully have the whole crown issue sorted and out of mind

Dear time teller - I must confess - I am a serial watch flipper - but the one watch I have kept the longest? - my SKX007J1 - I just can’t bear to part with it - in my eyes it is perfection - complete with all of its inherent flaws we all know and love - the turtle probably is the spiritual successor to the SKX and no doubt it’s only a matter of time before Seiko re-release a true SKX with all the improvements the original is lacking - and they’ll want $1,000 plus - but to me there is only one original - it’s a masterpiece of the watch world

Very nice piece for the money

Ok so I have this watch, love it. Maybe is just camera tricks, but your watch seems to have black around all the markers. Mine has “silver”. It seems to be the exact watch, the only difference is mine came on a bracelet. Two different sets of markers, Is that a thing?

So glad I waited out I literally just got it for 220! A total steal!

Beautiful watch but so is the king samurai, just can't decide which one to get as my first Seiko automatic, thx for the video

In the intro, the second picture after the seiko 5's. The one on the far right. Can you please tell me the model of that one. It's really bulky. Thanks!!

The dive bezel is not meant to align chapter rings. ITS A DIVE BEZEL!!! It aligns perfectly on the minute hand. Just rotate it and cook eggs. If someone wants that kind of alignment, buy a Willard.

I have one, I love it.

I just got mine ,and must say it’s epic plus I picked mine up brand new for£250 genuine happy days

I love my KT. I'm even thinking about another one I found for a great price.

SRPE03 is the black dial no? SRPE05 is the green dial?

How about the Save the ocean Manta Ray? What can you say about it? it technical has the same specs.

I have that King Seiko, but I think I like my white dialed King Samurai more.

Finally bought a made in Japan King Turtle, an SRPE39 Save The Ocean model last month for $387. I like Heimdalr and Steeldive homages for a fraction of the price of a Seiko that have NH36 movements, sapphire and ceramic bezel insert.

One of the biggest bangs for the buck!

Great watch. King samurai is also a similar spec’d watch (gold second had too). What I love about the turtle and the samurai is they are big watches that wear smaller without compromising the fact they are legible dive watches. I actually like the Cyclopes because again that’s about diver legibility.

I must have one..............cyclops and all! Great review.

My dad has one of the King turtle, it has a black dial & a fullmetal strap. Fullmetal king or fullmetal turtle or fullmetal king turtle or fullmetal turtle king?

Got a SRP Triple-7. Also has a gritty crown. Maybe a general issue of the line. Besides that, I love the watch.

Love magnifiers

Jory check out the spb299 mm 200. Imo it competes with any 1k diver and looks pretty darn sexy!

Hey guys I have mine running for 11 days now and I have lost 3 minutes! It is losing almost 16 seconds a day, every day. It seems that is within specs technically but usually Seiko watches are much more accurate in general. Is it something that I should be looking for or is it just the luck of the draw? Is this enough reason to return it?? Thank you in advance !for any thoughts.

If someone asked me for budget divers, I’d say: under $100 Casio Duro, under $200 Orient Ray, under $300 Orient Kamasu, under $400 Glycine Combat Sub, under $500 Seiko King Turtle/Samurai plus look around and you can get the Kings for under $400 I did.

The OD Green model number is SRPE05. The Black one is SRPE03.

Finally treated myself to one of these a few weeks ago after watching this vid (any many others) and I love it. I have several seiko 7002's and 5's and this feels like a legit step up in terms of quality, in terms of case, dial, bezel and saphire. Cyclops doesn't bother me, unlike some watches I have which come with cyclops, I haven't had the issue where the day&date/date isn't clear unless you look at it from a ridiculously specific angle so I stopped noticing it early on. Kept it on the rubber as holes fit perfectly for my size, love this chunky monkey on my wrist :D standard seiko QC issues ; bezel and markers are perfectly alligned, bought it brand new off ebay so got lucky considering I couldn't see the specific piece until it arrived, but I paid considerably below RRP so happy - there is a tiny spec of dust on the second hand towards the lume - Do i notice it? Do I fuck. Absolute steal if you find one online below RRP, which doesn't seem uncommon.

The SRPE's are all made in Malaysia/Thailand. Does anyone know the JDM model number for this watch?

I have this watch and absolutely enjoy it very much. Good value from Seiko for sure.

I have to say the version 4 monsters gives it a runs for it's money (literaally and figuratively) as it uses the same caliber and is wholly original Seiko design. I am actually torn between getting the King Turtle or the V4 Monster. In my warped collectors mind getting the Monster would then necessitate saving for a Willard as I would need to "a" Turtle in my collection😅. Let the madness never end😂.

That kiss wasn’t necessary 😂 we love you too

I like the monster also

a good watch

My king turtle is the dark manta ray. Really wish I would have got the light blue. Got it for 291 brand new eBay. Because the candy bar magnifier was misaligned the seller gave me $31 off that's a deal.

Nice watch and better than the new hype seiko 5 GMT, which is 100 to 200 bucks to expensive for a day wheel modify to be a GMT hand, quality control issue and hardlex without AR coating. The 03 seem to be the black dial and this one with the green dial is the 05, am I wrong ?

Great review as usual, I bout one, a

At 7:48, is it me or does the bezel not properly align?

Do a review of the Turtle Homages. The Chinese brands seem to be fairly competitive on detail, quality and of course lower prices.

Wearing mine today!

Why did they replace the SRPE777 with this Model?

Your watch has movement Japan printed on dial but some of them not.im wondering why

I have a waffle king samurai and a Dark Manta stingray King turtle. Turtle all day . Despite the size it fits my 6.25 inch wrist but the king samurai is just too bulky for my wrist. I am trying to let it grow on me but it is hard. I tried turtle design by starting with a steel dive captain willard homage and I was surprised how comfortable it feels. I have Sumo hulk which is more bulkier but sits on my wrist just right despite the size but. Tuna is also a good one. I have the urban safari street series and its cute same as ice antarctica monster sits perfectly on my wrist. Only problem with seiko is that they have notorious misalignment. The kamasu was my first diver on the collection before having an skx. Planning to sell my second sumo hulk, steel dive captain willard homage and my Orient Kamasu. Ending up with 6 seiko on my collections. SKX007, Waffle Black King Samurai, Dark Blue Manta King Turtle, Sumo Hulk, Ice Antarctica Monster and lastly urban safari street series tuna. My wish list would be: Captain Willard Smaller Samurai maybe if they release a mini Red Dial Samurai.m to replace the large one. Orange SkX013 Red. A mini shogun to complete the japanese named divers probably.

I loved mine but i had to strip and realign the chapter ring and the bezel insert before I was truly happy with it!

I know you're not a fan of the samurai, but it is a viable option with the same specs (minus the day) at the same price.

King turtle and king samurai fan.

King Turtle Green is on wrist! I’ve got Rolexes too: is it better? Heck no. Does it hold its own and hog wrist time? Heck yeah.

Just order the manta ray but worried its going to be too big, i should of tried it on first