David Flett

Sep 30, 2024 | robbreport.com | David Flett

We recently looked at the seven best vintage Grand Seiko watches to collect, as well as at a $90,000 1968 VFA Grand Seiko that sold earlier this year. Today, we are going to look at actual listings for the best vintage Grand Seiko watches you can buy right now. Let’s get the bad news out of the way first: Grand Seiko prices are on the rise.

Sep 30, 2024 | yahoo.com | David Flett

We recently looked at the seven best vintage Grand Seiko watches to collect, as well as at a $90,000 1968 VFA Grand Seiko that sold earlier this year. Today, we are going to look at actual listings for the best vintage Grand Seiko watches you can buy right now. Let’s get the bad news out of the way first: Grand Seiko prices are on the rise.

Sep 4, 2024 | robbreport.com | David Flett |Allen Farmelo

In our recent meditation on how postmodernism saved the Swiss mechanical watch industry in the 1980s, we noted that from that decade onward, recreating watches from the past (an artistic practice called pastiche) has become so common that its significance is easy to glance over. Many of today’s retro-watches aren’t faithful one-to-one recreations but homages that accommodate modern tastes in one way or another (typically with larger size).

Jul 2, 2024 | robbreport.com | David Flett

Seven years on from its split from parent brand Seiko—and many watches and press releases later—the contemporary Grand Seiko brand is well-understood. The Japanese brand makes hand-assembled luxury watches, often priced around the $10,ooo mark, with limited editions costing more, and quartz models less. With dial designs inspired by nature, from wind-sculpted snow to silver birch bark, their modern ethos is clearly the self-proclaimed “Nature of Time”.

Jul 2, 2024 | yahoo.com | David Flett

Seven years on from its split from parent brand Seiko—and many watches and press releases later—the contemporary Grand Seiko brand is well-understood. The Japanese brand makes hand-assembled luxury watches, often priced around the $10,ooo mark, with limited editions costing more, and quartz models less. With dial designs inspired by nature, from wind-sculpted snow to silver birch bark, their modern ethos is clearly the self-proclaimed “Nature of Time”.