Preferences of these two please

[Slamdoor]

On the left: hi beat 80hrs
On the right: spring drive 3 day.

[Filterlab]

Hi-Beat for me. Dial looks more balanced and a little more interesting, plus a proper bracelet is always good as a leather is easy to find.

What's the price disparity?

[Slamdoor]

Hi-Beat for me. Dial looks more balanced and a little more interesting, plus a proper bracelet is always good as a leather is easy to find.

What's the price disparity?

The hi beat about 3K extra

[numberjack]

Hi beat , dislike the power reserve on the rhs one

[Filterlab]

The hi beat about 3K extra

That's a heck of a whack, but that Hi-Beat movement is a work of art.

Still Hi-Beat.

[JasonM]

Definitely the non power reserve one on bracelet.

[verv]

Hi beat

[magpie215]

Hi beat for me...just looks more interesting...also I don't like the power reserve on dial.

[Sinnlover]

Spring drive if I had to pick one
Purely for the movement being different

[helidoc]

They are very different
High beat

I like the idea of Spring drive, in a different case

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[trident-7]

Hi beat

[catch21]

Hi beat for me. Bracelet essential, much easier to switch to a strap than to a bracelet. The case is a more interesting shape and has a clean dial. They’re chalk and cheese though really with 3k difference.

[Slamdoor]

Tending towards the hi beat although research hints at accuracy issues with the 80hrs movement.

[wigdog]

Very different watches. I am on the fence with GS but tried a few on in the boutique recently. I asked them about the Hi beat 80hr reliability issues and they were a little cagey...
If I was buying my first GS it would be a spring drive of some sort. I can't bear the PR on the dial so personally I wouldn't chose either of those, but if forced would go for the spring drive.
This is my current favourite GS:
https://www.grand-seiko.com/uk-en/collections/sbgy007g

[notenoughwrists]

Had a number of both movements - although not those models.
Spring drive is novel, but there was a bit of me that never fully took to it. Something too technical and quartzy about it.
(I am totally wrong, but was how I felt)

My hi-beats were/are the recent version - but not the 80hrs.
I like it, find it robust and very accurate. Also like all the blurb about it and the manufacture process on the GS website.

Just from your photo, I prefer the look of the Spring Drive, and don’t object to the PR dial at all.


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[carlt69]

Hi beat for me, looks cleaner and a lot nicer on the bracelet


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[abraxas]

They are so different you could have both. A hi-beat and a spring drive.