Grand Seiko 8-Day Spring Drive Watch Review

Grand Seiko 8-Day Spring Drive Watch Review

Grand Seiko 8-Day Spring Drive Watch Review

Should you read HODINKEE regularly

Then you definitely (like us) have experienced a lot of watches this season - and that i mean A Lot. This season we'd some greats that people could not get free from our heads, such as the Tudor Black Bay 36, Rolex Daytona with ceramic bezel, Audemars Piguet Extra-Thin Tourbillon in platinum, and also the A. Lange & S?hne Saxonia Thin 37mm. But you will find couple of watches you will probably have forgotten, not because they weren't worth remembering, but due to the sheer amount of watches released each year. Listed here are seven great watches that you simply most likely didn't remember about, but certainly should remember.

Grand Seiko 8-Day Spring Drive Watch Review

This is actually the Grand Seiko 8-Day Spring Drive, created by Seiko's Micro Artist Studio in Shiojiri, Japan. The Micro Artist Studio may be the niche branch of Seiko that creates super high quality, hands-finished timepieces (think the Eichi II and also the Credor Minute Repeater, for instance). Released captured at Baselworld, this 8-Day Spring Drive may be the first Grand Seiko created through the Micro Artist Studio, and it didn't dissatisfy. Using its hefty 43mm platinum situation, completely new in-house movement (caliber Caliber 9R01) and frosted dial, this watch isn't just gorgeous to check out, but is another landmark piece for that Japanese manufacturer.

Seiko is sort of of the cult favorite among purists

And Grand Seiko much more so. I was happy to observe that the fine watchmaking abilities from the Micro Artist Studio are now being applied stylishly and perfectly to some watch that people love. The 8-Day Spring Drive's dial should really help remind us of freshly fallen snow within the Nagano region of Japan (maybe a stretch, but it is beautiful enough that I'll certainly go together with it). In addition, the 3-quarter plate caliber movement consists of 307 components and it has a 198-hour power reserve. To all of us, this watch captures everything we like about Grand Seiko - precision, craftsmanship, and sweetness.

The Richard Mille tonneau-form situation was initially released in 2001, which year at SIHH Richard Mille finally made this classic design within an ultra-thin version, calculating 38.70 mm x 47.52 mm x 7.75 mm, with a movement just 3.6mm thick. This watch, the RM67-01, is amazingly well-crafted, and simple to put on using its lightweight situation and svelte profile. The timepiece can also be operated by the automated CRMA6 movement, that is developed in-house and created externally. The timepiece will come in white-colored gold (pictured) and titanium.

Richard Mille watches can be very polarizing 

Partially because of their design and partially because of their high prices. Love them or hate them though, you need to provide them with credit, they're just really effing awesome searching watches. We like the now-classic Richard Mille tonneau situation shape has finally become the ultra-thin treatment (formerly there have been other ultra-thin RMs, although not with this particular classic shape). So we love this automatic version will come in durable and light-weight titanium, and lustrous white-colored gold. This watch is really a awesome spin on the classic of contemporary watchmaking that should not be overlooked.