Introducing the Grand Seiko Snowflake SBGX355 and STGF385 Watches – WristReview.com – offering watch evaluations, evaluations, studies and information

BY HARLAN CHAPMAN-GREEN

It looks like solely yesterday that I used to be saying on this weblog that “his and hers” watch pairs have fallen out of fashion as main watch manufacturers have deserted males’s and ladies’s collections in favor of extra impartial measurement numbers. Apparently the parents at Grand Seiko have not made this alteration but; Possibly gender is not as massive of a cultural subject in Japan as it’s within the West. Or possibly they deliberate these watches years in the past and subsequently must launch them earlier than switching over their complete catalog.

What you see listed below are two new additions to the “Snowflake” watches. Grand Seiko is thought for the usage of colours and textures on its dials and so they differ in inspiration from highly effective oceans and white birch forests to the reflections of Japanese maple bushes in wood floorboards, no I am not making that up. Regardless of all this, the watches with a snowflake dial are essentially the most sought-after variations. They’re so named due to their pure white dials, that are impressed by the snow that always falls within the Japanese winter.

The brand new watches are quartz fashions of applicable measurement. The primary is that this 28.9mm X 8.8mm Chrome steel STGF385. This piece is elegant and a bit sporty, and its case is water-resistant to 100m, however I doubt many will attempt that for worry of knocking one of many 44 diamonds (0.39 carats) out of its setting on the bezel.

The white dial with elegant dauphine fingers is engaging, and I like that Grand Seiko has made an effort to border the date window to make it an eye-catcher. The 4J52 quartz motion has a battery life of three years and an accuracy of +/- 10 seconds per yr. The value is $3800.

The second mannequin is the bigger SBGX355, which at simply 100 meters continues to be comparatively small by right this moment’s requirements 37mm X 30mm. Just like the STGF385, the SBGX355 encompasses a domed sapphire crystal masking the dial, though the SBGX355’s case is manufactured from “Excessive-Depth Titanium,” which Grand Seiko says is tougher and extra scratch-resistant than common titanium.

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Nevertheless, the water resistance is similar at 100m. Inside this watch is the 9F62 quartz caliber, which has the identical accuracy and battery life because the STGF385. The value for that is $5500.

These are nice watches, however they’re fairly costly. It is a disgrace Citizen did not make it AQ4103-16E Black Washi paper dial View an entire manufacturing mannequin. That is extra correct, cheaper, has an identical measurement to the SBG355 and has an attention-grabbing dial with the “Eco-Drive” expertise behind it. Properly, if you would like a contemporary icon in your wrist that does not come from Switzerland, it is laborious to beat a snowflake.