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Spring Drive simply rocks!! 8)


If I were to keep only 1 watch, my Ananta Spring Drive GMT would be it. The movement is amazing and it refuses to lose time. Never seen anything like it. Having a mechanical watch that is unaffected by positional variance is a dream come true.


Spring Drive is money well spent. Not cheap but oh boy, so well worth it.

 

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I think you'll find that serious collectors have been well aware of the value of high end seikos for a long time. I think the issue is not so much changing perceptions amongst collectors, but amongst the general public, who continue to view seiko as an inexpensive to mid level "department store" brand and no nothing about what makes seiko a desirable or high end brand let alone a comparable to most of the high end swiss brands.

That and the "Anti-Japanese" bias shown by some collectors whom will never give any high end Seiko the time of day, no matter how good or better it may be.


My Ananta AD commented that the watches have attracted customers that own expensive Swiss watches in the likes of Patek Phillipe, Vacheron Constantin, Rolex, etc. Without hard data is hard to say whether Ananta has been truly successful at changing the established perception of Seiko as an inexpensive purveyor of solid but ordinary quartz watches.

 

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Send some money my way so I can buy the SD diver.

If I win the lotto, I'll buy you the MM600 Spring Drive diver O


For now, this will have to suffice: