THIS WATCH WILL BLOW YOUR MIND! - GIVEAWAY ENEDED…..Ages ago!
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- In this video I review the Grand Seiko SBGX263 men's watch. This is an incredible watch which offer's a great value semi-affordable path into the luxury watch market but sadly, it may not be around for much longer.....so if you want one.....don't hang around!
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3. On January the 1st 2023, you will need to watch the results video where I will show my using a random comment picker to select the recipient from the comments.
4. If you are announced as the recipient, you will need to email me at oldmantimegary@gmail.com to let me know your address.
5. I will send the watch free of charge to you and you can start to enjoy the watch as soon as it arrives!
6. You will have 30 days to watch the results video and contact me…After 30 days the video will be removed and the watch offered again to a new subscriber in a new results video!
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SPECIFICATIONS
37mm Dia
10mm Thick
19mm lugs
44mm lug to lug 47.8mm inc end links
100m WR
Quartz 9F62
3 year battery life
Stainless Steel
Sapphire Crystal
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In January, I will giveaway this Grand Seiko to a SUBSCRIBER….please add a comment here to participate! I’ll announce the recipient in a video over new year!
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A GS Giveaway 👀
Gary, you’re a legend m8! 🚀🚀🚀
Good luck everyone!
Wow....great piece. I'm a sucker for vintage watches. Pls consider me for the giveaway. Pls carry on Gary!!!
All GS cases including this one are Zaratsu polished.
Another interesting fact, this dial (which they call Silk Sun Ray) is their most complex and labour intensive dial (more than the patterned ones).
very interesting, do you have any info you can share on the Silk Sun Ray process? I'd definitely like to read about it.
GS 9F Quartz watches are so underappreciated and neglected. And the technical data list is just bonkers!
I bought the Silver dial version for my daughter and it is a stunner also. The dial takes on the colour of its surroundings. I am so impressed with GS quartz timepieces that I have just ordered the new limited edition SBGP017. 'Sea of Clouds' blue dial with the 9F85 movement. Interestingly, it also has a display case back. Expensive but a beautiful looking, and , expectedly, performing piece. I am hoping that this may be the start of GS producing high quality quartz watches with some of their gorgeous textured dials.
@@polygoncoco I ordered mine direct from the Grand Seiko Boutique website. I don't think it appears on GS dealers pages, only the Boutique site. It looks superb, delivery in July
Lots of other watches are thermocompensated including watches from omega, citizen and eta based watches.
Citizen make a movement that is accurate to 1 sec a year and you can get an eta based chronograph with thermocompensation and a stated 10s a year accuracy which has 27 jewels for hundreds of dollars not thousands.
I love the look of the grand Seiko but I'd prefer an automatic after having horrible experience with Jewelers destroying my watches just to service the battery. Watchmakers are very few in between.
@@murph8411 What you say is true however, in my opinion, there is more to buying a watch than accuracy. How it looks, the quality of the manufacturing and components, how it feels on the wrist and most importantly, how I feel when I am wearing it. The watches I buy and wear say 'buy me' when I see them, as in this case. Most pieces do nothing for me. At the end of the day you buy what you like, not what others think you should buy. There is no wrong or right, except for paying 8 X retail for a Rolex OP, that is just wrong!
I really like Grand Seiko and would like to win one! I have smaller wrists and I am Fascinated by new technologies!
I love the fact that Grand Seiko have elevated the humble quartz movement to this level. The attention to detail here is bonkers. Keep the reviews coming!
I have a 1977 King Quartz. (In early 70s Seiko rebranded Grand Seiko and King Seiko to Grand Quartz and King Quartz as Quartz was so far superior to mechanical movements.) The movement keeps perfect time over the several years that I've owned it. It was rated at +/- 10 seconds per month from factory, but much better than that. 45 years old, no issues.
Man... called out on the "Quick to dismiss all quartz watches!" but honestly sold on that beauty of an inhouse quartz movement by GS! Always wanted a Grand Seiko ever since owning a Seiko SARB033. One day perhaps! 😀
Came across this while surfing the net. It’ll be my next purchase unless I change my mind and go for a mechanical one. That dial is what caught my eye as well as the brushed finish and polish.
I would not be surprised at all if Seiko actually discontinued this model, re-released it under another reference at twice the price...a very Seiko thing to do 🤔🤔
This is a luxury watch, with history and great craftsmanship. If all quartz mechanisms would look like this one I'm sure they will receive much more love.
Having just recently got 'properly' into watches..i always thought quartz was the cheapo lame.. fall to pieces kind of thing.. oooh how wrong I was!.. now..im dying to get a HAQ in my collection.. I have some half decent quartz movements..but they're just basic compared to these beauties..
I think I disagree with you about the empty space on the bottom of the dial. It’s something we are used to seeing but this dial is so gorgeous that being empty gives you more visually to appreciate.
Who would have thought it would be so hard to give away a Grand Seiko!
So many things to say about this video. Firstly - thank you; your love of watches in general and appreciation of this piece in particular makes the factual content very easy to watch. If you did a 45 minute video on this watch, maybe including some q/a with some of the other people you mentioned, I would watch it! 😁
Secondly - ah Seiko.... All the content about the movement and the indices (they're diffraction gratings) is why I fell in love with Seiko; all the comments on the bracelet on a watch costing $2k are why I fell out of love with Seiko (I'm now down to 2 from 'embarrassing' - both solar quartz).
Thirdly - quartz movements - keep going. The fact (and it is a fact) is that all quartz movements are far, far more complex than the lossy 400 year old technology on which mechanical watch movements are based. We tend to forget that when the Astron was released in 1969 it cost the inflation-adjusted equivalent of about $12k. Quartz movements are not inherently cheap; they're cheap now as a result of the microprocessor and printed circuit manufacturing revolution - itself a miracle of modern science and mass manufacturing technology that we take for granted. Probably the best video I've seen on quartz movements is on Steve Mould's channel - but even he glosses over the small matter of analog to digital conversion, miniaturised in a wristwatch in 1969. For anyone reading this who may be sceptical, I honestly believe that once you understand what's going on inside a quartz movement, your appreciation of them, and what Seiko actually achieved back in 1969, will grow exponentially.
Great feedback, thank you!
Great comment. There is a lot of snobbery in the watch community about quartz movements. Yes, they are now two-a-penny but like you said it’s amazing technology and this movement featured is very high tech and probably had a lot of R&D money put into it. Also people forget that GS have a great deal of hand finishing put into their watches. People are happy to praise the so called ‘value’ of a £2K Swiss watch like an Oris with a £120 Sellita automatic movement inside it but fail to realise just what good value a similarly priced but FAR better finished GS is.
@@jacc88888 I did wonder what feedback the comment might get, so I thank you for yours. Just in case I haven't poked this wasps nest enough though 🙂: the snobbery is a shame because those with it are missing out. Small prejudices are easy to change though with a bit of knowledge, which is why the lack of info on Seiko's website is so bizarre.
Whenever I engage with or read anything about quartz snobbery, I'm always reminded of the 'non-watch' person conversation every enthusiast has had - that one where you start gushing to a normal person about the expensive Swiss thing on your wrist, trying to get them interested. At some point they ask the obvious question about accuracy and you have to admit your $4k automatic heritage Swiss timepiece is less accurate over time than a $20 quartz watch, and you can see them slowly reaching for their phone to call the local asylum and have you committed. Happy days...🤣
As an owner of an Omega quartz for 34 years with it still going strong and accurate with only regular battery changes over those years, I fail to understand the mechanical snobbery originally cultivated by a dying Swiss industry. It's a beautiful watch with a wonderful movement .
Its only "SHOCKIN".. to you, because you follow nonsense. Why would quartz be cheap?. What makes a quartz movement cheap in your mind?. Please seriously explain? . i would love a very nice quartz movement. One day ill have one.
@@silverghost4206 Have You always been this socially awkward?..please explain.
So.. because someone who maybe didn't have the luxury of being taught what different watch movements are that You can try and pull that 'watch snob' BS on Me?.. alright Geoffrey.. look for another target.
@@mrmagoo.3678 An what "watch snob" deities did i show to you?. Wow you sure a special one.
@@silverghost4206 Jog on Geoffrey.. find someone else to explaine how knowledgable you are to.
For those who do not want to worry about a battery and jumping seconds hand, there is the Spring Drive with 9R65 movements with an automatic rotor with sweeping seconds hand and the prices of GS models with these inside are rising. Seiko as a brand are a separate entity. Grand Seiko is in a stratosphere of their own. It took me quite some time to really get to know what they are all about and glad I did.
I would love a spring drive GS but out of my budget at present. That said, regarding this watch featured I love the idea of having a watch to hand that will always be running and that will be so accurate that it would only need adjusting when you travel to a different time zone or for daylight saving time purposes. The accuracy of this thing is mind blowing.
I love the spring drives.. incredible mechanisms!.. I'm falling in live with these high end quartz too
This is about to be your most commented on video ever! Somebody win that watch!
I have the 263 as well. It’s quality is mind blowing and it wears so incredibly well on smaller wrists. ❤️ Even those who hate quartz have to admire the sheer engineering GS took in creating the 9F movement. It was at the time quite literally the pinnacle of the technology, and others still struggle to match it to this day.
Agreed!
Is the dial easier to read at glance??
This watch is simply sublime. High-accuracy quartz definitely deserves more respect.
Interesting watch - thanks for the info. Made me appreciate these watches more. The finishing is superb. But....... can't help feeling that the end product is just very bland. I dont like my watches to be too 'blingy' but this one take subtlety to a whole new level. 🙂
The amount of (over)engineering that went into making such a precise quartz movement is just mindblowing! Why bother with receiving radio time signals when you can keep a +/- 0 seconds/year precision? 🤷
I bought the SBGX285 while I was in Osaka, 2019. Similar to your watch, limited edition. Negotiated 10% discount and no vat. Beautiful watch and a joy to wear. No battery needed yet!! Gained one second since I bought it. I fitted an expensive lightweight red/scarlet strap, I get so many comments on it. Perfect quartz watch
Sounds incredible
I've always preferred quartz over mechanical, but is honestly so difficult to find great quality quartz, or to find microbrands that use quartz movements in as unique ways as they do NH35s and Miyota 9015s. Such a stunning piece you have there Gary
quartz is better. keeps better time of course. gives the watchmaker an opportunity to preportion a watch case proplerly. the industry cons their consumers to mechs, mechs need service every few years. the mark goes to the shop sends it away and buys another watch while they r waiting weeks for their watch to get back
Love it. My fave though is the Citizen 0100. + - 1 second per year. Cheers.
I teally , really wanted to win this watch when this came out. Still wished I did.
Fantastic video, Gary - thank you for making this. I was very close to buying this when we swapped messages on IG about the watch being discontinued, so I decided to get it. During my final research I discovered the GS SBGT235, which is a JDM model and exactly the same as the SBGX263, but with an English / Kanji day complication and a dressier bracelet with polished links. The day/date means there’s less empty space on the dial (something that concerned me about the SBGX263) and as I wanted a dressier piece the bracelet upgrade suited me. I received the watch on Monday and I absolutely love it. The size, fit and finish are magnificent. Wear yours in good health, Gary - looks great on your wrist.
Amazing sounds like you got the perfect watch!
Didn’t expect this channel to go from Ali Express watches straight to Seiko. 😊
On a more serious note, thank you for the detailed presentation of the 9F movement. Many so called watch connoisseurs dismiss these for the simple reason of them being quartz.
Also wanted to mention that the champagne dials are among GS’s most complicated to produce, with almost twice the manufacturing steps than the others.
I produced many non Ali watch videos…my Seiko Saturday videos were always my most popular…nice to mix it up, glad you appreciated it…thanks for watching!
@@ilikewatchesPretty please do more Seiko Saturdays, it's feeding my Seiko addiction 🙄
Brings a whole new meaning to be the in two ticks ! You’d be there a tick early!
19mm lug is common in vintage Seiko actually and many omega. Still odd to see in modern but not surprising either. Possibly a proportion thing to go with the odd 37mm case. I’ve owned many 36 and 38 but never a 37!
Stunning watch and yes the technology is breathtaking in what they can do with quartz .
I have a Seiko Grand Quartz from the 70’s in 37mm. Gold capped, looks practically brand new. Not everyone wants a to wear a clock on their wrist. In fact the 36mm is roaring back in popularity ( just look at all the Explorer style 36mm’s that won’t stay in stock). I am ok with large divers, but not in dressier timepieces. I also have a Seiko Grand Quartz with the silvery snowflake face in 36. And my Gold GS Quartz is a vintage 36mm!
Hey Gary, putting my comment in for the random selection
Great video!
$2200 "cheapest". Yikes.
GS is truly second to none. I started in this hobby just collecting quartz pieces but once I learned about GS it really made me start appreciating the top end of horology today.
this is the first quartz watch I really like :)!
I do agree that every watch enthusiast should have at least one quartz watch in their collection. Thank you Gary for reviewing this particular beauty, and explaining a lot of things I didn’t know about this particular movement 👏🏼👌🙏🏼
this video really opened my eyes to these high end quartz watches, I never gave quartz a chance tbh, always saw them as "cheap".. now.. I'm really hooked on these HPQ..HAQ's ..
Have to say I have never understood the reverence so many watch fans have for Grand Seiko, never thought they were in the same class as Rolex, Omega, etc, until I watched this video. I was wrong, am extremely impressed and they clearly belong, perhaps even leading the class given the price. Thanks for the education Gary!
I was saying similar when I watched this.. but with quartz.. I love Seiko.. grand Seiko I never really looked at, but QUARTZ??. I hated quartz, I didn't really consider the high quality stuff till watching this.
The more I look at GS quartz (esp. in the metal), the more I find myself wanting one for my collection 🔥
Same here.. I've always been a mechanical movement addict.. but after looking into these higher end ultra accurate movements..I'm sold! I REALLY want one now!
What about Citizen and the A060 movement ?
It's still crazy to me that so many people don't like quartz! I know that sweeping seconds hand on mechanicals is mesmerizing, but there's always room for both in the collection!
But it's just by association because quartz gets a bad rap by people who know only a little about watches. I doubt the actual movement of a tick tick second hand winds many people up!
I am a sucker for a beautiful champagne dial. And thank you so much for educating us on that spectacular quartz movement. Really opened my eyes.
As advanced as the movement is, I'd prefer the same watch with a £19 meca-quartz movement giving the appearance of a sweeping hand, I suppose Seiko don't want to potentially damage the sales of the mechanical watches.
A good looking (if very plain) well made watch, no doubt - but every time I'd look at it, I would see a £2000 quartz watch.
Thanks for sharing Gary.
This video showed me an impressive product. I liked the information about it!
In the 70's as a kid I remember my uncle splashing out on his first quartz Seiko. Such a thing was made about its accuracy, not having to be wound etc and everyone wanted one. Now everyone wants an automatic again which is less accurate and bit of a faff unless you then go out and buy an automatic winder. It's a funny old World. I'm guessing my grand kids will want a classic inspired quartz again.
Very true, and while it’s still quite niche high end quartz movements are definitely gaining ground.
Unfortunate that the second hand doesn't land centered on the indices. A truly impressive movement. Seiko really does know how to make nice hands.
It must be a camera angle thing. It's one of the selling points that GS boutiques have told me before lol. My '89 GS quartz lands bang on the indices and that soldiers been ticking for 30+ years
@@rajgill7576 yeah hopefully, it seemed like it was very consistently a bit off, so maybe it is the camera.
I believe that these quartz versions from big brands must not be written off as something cheap. Some of them can be as, or even more complicated then an entry level mechanical watch, plus the same amount of detail and work goes into them. Also, they can be a great alternative for someone who is looking for a piece from that particular brand, but can't afford their normal versions.
Overall, a great looking watch, I really like Grand Seiko's offerings.
Cheers, Gary!
Just look at their bracelets, cheap trash
@@videowatch399 Aah. Ok, cool.
Their bracelets are superb. You’re obviously a non-Grand Seiko owner my Grand Seiko blows away my Omega, my Rolex and my Tudor.
@@videowatch399 says who? People say they are not as good as Rolex bracelets but hardly trash.
@@jacc88888 did you watch this video?
God this watch is beautiful
As an electric wheelchair user who never swing my arms I really can't use watches with automatic movements unless they are hand-windable, but that gets irritating over time. That's why quartz movements are so nice to me. Many fine timepieces are only offered with automatic movements, so it's so amazing that Grand Seiko offers quartz watches that look this good. I can feel like I wear a million bucks whiteout all the hassle!
I really think this piece might help me getting over my one-tick-per-second allergy... Because in terms of size, proportions, looks (that dial...) and technical prowess this is, well, pretty much perfection for a reasonable price. Thanks for the review!
For me personally I feel like there's something satisfying about the second hand hitting the marks perfectly 😄
@@R023N yeah there's something even better to it than the smoothest of smoothest hand sweeps
Have to say , you had me hooked when I heard grand Seiko, then lost me at quartz. Cheers Gary
Shame I lost you because this movement is fascinating….not like standard Quartz movements
Your loss Brian
A pity.
Love the 9f grand seikos 🥰
I just purchased the more hard to obtain and desirable 40mm version of this watch. Wanted a luxury quartz and this seemed to be the ticket. Went champagne for something different. Champagne dials are one of the hardest and longest time to make according to seiko supposedly. 40mm moves the bracelet up to 20mm. £1200 new in box from Chrono24 in Japan. Can’t beat that for the money…
That’s amazing value.
What did you have to pay on top of the retail price to bring it over to the uk?
Great looking watch! If Seiko made an affordable version of this with the mecaquartz movement I'd be all over it. As nice as the GS is, it still looks like it ticks once a second, and that would thoroughly piss me off after spending 2 bags
Fwiw you won’t see the hand land between second hashes, it’s dead on every time.
I suppose they could copy Bulova Precisionist watches with 8 or whatever advances of the second hand per second… sadly they’re not all that precise. Mine typically gains five seconds per month.
...of course, if I won this watch, I wouldn't be thoroughly pissed off at all 😄
Need that in my collection man!!❤
Fingers crossed, Grand Seiko’s quartz offerings are so cool
I love the Grand Seiko ⌚
I could do with that GS. 🙏
This time, the time is now. The fascinating GS SBGX263 really excites me!!
The Mondaine is very distracting 😝
Yeah…more so when I edit and it jumps abiut
Bought it some time ago thanks to your video!
Happy with it? Been on my list for a few years
This is an amazing watch.
Excellent review, I'm a new subscriber and I enjoy your sober and down to earth approach to watches. Fingers crossed for the giveaway! 🤞🏻
This is a fabulous watch with fantastic sharp lines. I’m a Seiko fan boy but can’t bring myself to take the leap to Grand Seiko as Seiko are coming out with some great pieces i.e Seiko Presage Sharp Edge and the King Seiko. However would love this piece in my collection .
Incredibile watch!
The lack of text above the 6 is actually a plus. Admire the dial instead of reading WR50M or Quartz or something else.
I'm really surprised by all the comments on the GS bracelets and the gaps etc. I would look at it from another perspective myself being very hairy, and this being the most comfortable bracelet I've ever worn. every link is hand finished and chamfered and has gaps and play. not a single hair ever caught. not a single sharp rub ever occurred.. designed for function. not immobility. It really plays odd in my mind to imagine that a company with such eye for detail would just go "nah, lets make sloppy bracelets because we are lazy" rather than "lets make something you can wear every day of your life and not be a problem"
same with the micro adjustments.. if you do that, you have a clasp that is now more protruding.. puts more pressure on your wrist at a desk etc. you never hear these complaints on butterfly clasps that are designed the same way. to me, this clasp is giving the look and feel or very close to a butterfly clasp, without the hassle of the BF clasp.
I appreciate your video. you are the only person ever to actually show what you are talking about in regards to the bracelet instead of just making an offhand comment that it could be "better" from all the videos I have watched. i was starting to think i was clueless on the issue.
I really appreciate this bracelet over many others i have worn.. admittedly I've not had a Rolex or otherwise to sample. with 9.5" wrists i cant try anything i'm not willing to buy and adjust.
i don't miss micro adjustments myself. i like to wear it loose like a bracelet more than tight and immobile so its just always got that room to breathe. i guess everyone just has different preferences.
So excited to see this watch in person one day and try it on wrist.
Nice watch. Anything with dauphine hands immediately interests me....typical seiko bracelet..
Just send Me the watch. 🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️
Thank you for the giveway opportunity, can't believe the winners didn't claim the prize.
The grand Seiko is a status symbol watch worn by the high echolons of our society... Super fine finish, incredible Japanese precision engineering... Georgous looks 👍🏽😘👌....
Would love a SBGN003, but since you’re giving away an SNGX267 I’ll take it:)
±10 seconds a year. Self-regulating accuracy. Service interval of 50 years. There's quartz, and there's 9F quartz.
Yes please
I'm partial to quartz watches. Having a luxury level quartz watch on my wrist (for free!) sounds wonderful. Thanks.
Incredible giveaway mate. Spreading the joy of HAQ ❤
Im just waiting ro them to offer this quartz Black or white dial with open case-back.
Mesmerizing watch! I want it!! Pick my comment and I surely claim the watch ASAP!
Finding how much I appreciate these vintage quartz pieces. I just got my 7a38-7090 and love it
Frankly unbelievable giveaway.. I can barely afford any watch, let alone a Grand Seiko.. Beautiful model too..!!! Good luck to all..!!
I'm looking forward to having this watch and experiencing its quality.
Great review there.I personally think Grand Seikos are underrated. The Grand Seiko SBGX263 is a stunning watch that offers exceptional precision and quality. With a sleek and modern design featuring the champagne sunburst dial and polished stainless steel case, it is the perfect size for both casual and formal wear. Powered by Seiko's 9F quartz movement, it is highly accurate and reliable, with a unique backlash auto-adjust mechanism ensuring the hands remain in the correct position. Water-resistant up to 100 meters and with scratch-resistant sapphire crystal, this watch is both practical and stylish. Overall, the SBGX263 is an exceptional timepiece that combines style and precision with effortless elegance.
Adding a comment for the giveaway just in case my previous comment didn't go through! Thanks!!
Poah, didn't realise you can adjust the movement yourself! Amazing piece.
I mean, I commented already, right? Must have.... been following this epic, of course. So, no harm, no foul, right? If I comment again, I mean. Many thanks if I should win!
You'll eventually be successful giving away that G.S. watch. Hopefully it will be to me. Continued success to you and your channel. ✌️
well... id say- save your money for year or so... bigger problems comin. Good luck!
I enjoyed your watch review very much. The one thing you feared I think is happening. A few days ago (early Feb 2024) they announced a new watch, the sbgx355. This quartz watch is more expensive than the sbgx263 even though it uses the same 9F62 quartz movement. Granted it is made in high-intensity titanium and has a dial reminiscent of the "Snowflake". The listed price of the watch is 3800 (USD) or 3700 (GBP). I\'m pretty set on picking up the sbgx263 this weekend. I live in Tokyo and there seems to be less and less inventory online. Please keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing your review on the sbgx355. Cheers.
Thanks to Grand Seiko quartz movements, they're one of only a handful of quartz watches worth drooling over. +/- 0 seconds is crazy.
Second comment for newer giveaway. Incoming medical student, could reallyyyyy use this 🙏🏽
My grail watch! I would like to win this one! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🔥🔥🔥
Gary, thanks for your persistence on the GS giveaway. I'd be honored to be one of the 'Magnificent Seven' to compete for the FINAL drawing!
Lovely watch, and thanks for persevering with the give aways. I think my Dad would absolutely love this watch (he's 100% a quartz guy). =D
These sbgx watches are absolute stunners - I picked up the blue dial version when I was in Tokyo ❤️ I’m going to have to pick up a 44GS case model in the very near future
Great review, the watch has amazing specs and looks great. I hope to receive my SGBX261 tomorrow. Yes, Zaratsu polished, but I can imagine that has already been mentioned.
Count me in. Have always loved Grand Seiko and I'm not an Automatic snob.
Is it too late to participate?
A year too late sadly
I continue to be very happy with my titanium Kinetic SKA214, which keeps perfect time and weighs a mere 78g.
Beautiful watch. I own several Seiko’s and very impressed. This one looks next level.
I've been looking for a high accuracy quartz watch for everyday use. This would be awesome! Let's hope I'm the lucky one this time.
It’s a beautiful watch, reminds me of my Sarb033 which I regret selling
Love these Grand Seiko’s, the finishing and dial quality is amazing for the price.
I Would Love to have that stunner.... honestly...I mean it....Thanks for the upload.