Reply With QuoteHi-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?
On the left: hi beat 80hrs
On the right: spring drive 3 day.
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 extraOriginally Posted by Filterlab
Hi beat , dislike the power reserve on the rhs one
Hi beat for me...just looks more interesting...also I don't like the power reserve on dial.
That's a heck of a whack, but that Hi-Beat movement is a work of art.
Still Hi-Beat.
Definitely the non power reserve one on bracelet.
Cheers..
Jase
Spring drive if I had to pick one
Purely for the movement being different
They are very different
High beat
I like the idea of Spring drive, in a different case
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Hi beat
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.
Tending towards the hi beat although research hints at accuracy issues with the 80hrs movement.
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
I'd go for Hi-beat, but on a strap. I've personally not seen a Seiko bracelet that I like yet - or even one that doesn't look cheap compared to other similarly priced brands for that matter.
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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That's superb.
Certainly is!
That's how the dial should look.
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
Is it for yourself, or will it be a forum pass-around?
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Quick shot whilst in the boutique. Glorious dial and perfect size( for me).
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Quick shot whilst in the boutique. Glorious dial and perfect size( for me
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Cheers!
Lovely piece.
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
Anything on a bracelet wins it for me
Hi beat for me, looks cleaner and a lot nicer on the bracelet
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They are so different you could have both. A hi-beat and a spring drive.
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