How does Grand Seiko Spring Drive work and how does it compare to a traditional mechanical Watch? 🤔 #grandseiko #springdrive #shorts #grandseikospringdrive
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@popomomo1210 ай бұрын
The sword edit had me 😂😂😂😂😂
@kayless326 ай бұрын
Samurai 😂
@keysncoffee77334 күн бұрын
That was fire!
@TheMeditron9 ай бұрын
Spring drive is basically magic and I straight love it.
@redbarchetta8782Ай бұрын
When art and technology come together.
@TheEugenePiano10 ай бұрын
I’ll tell you how it works. It works extremely well!
@threethrushes10 ай бұрын
Beautiful.
@gushlak398310 ай бұрын
yooooo that gmt at the end is gorgeous
@twwtb3 ай бұрын
Gotta love Seiko for their innovation. Eagerly awaiting my first, a lowly Seiko 5 field watch.
@spencerschulz6263 ай бұрын
Nice! Seiko 5 is basically the same quality finishing you’d find on a submariner or Hamilton kaki
@bricesuire50723 ай бұрын
@@spencerschulz626no. The Seiko prospect lx line is. You got that wrong brotha. The Seiko 5’s the 200 to 600 dollar ones don’t touch the Rolex. They have a 4r36 movement which isn’t bad. You can get it to even +/- 5 seconds a day.
@richardlyman29613 ай бұрын
@@spencerschulz626That is not true, Rolex is leagues ahead of seiko’s entry-level models. Rolex has excellent finishing. Saying this as a GS owner and seiko fanboy.
@john-paulsilke8932 ай бұрын
@@richardlyman2961 agreed. I love my Seiko 5 collection it’s awesome. But it’s nothing compared to my Daytona, (which I just sold to help finance a house along with my GS Snowflake 😢). And I too am a fanboy, nobody does a dial face like Grand Seiko! (Bracelet is good, not fantastic unlike even a cheap Rolex).
@richardlyman29612 ай бұрын
@@john-paulsilke893 I have an evolution 9 and the bracelets are a lot better now but still lack micro adjust
@lpg123388 ай бұрын
Spring Drive is an impressive technology, but one of the reasons way I like mechanical watches, is because of the tick tock sounds. Of all the watches that I have owned, Longines has the best sound. If its quite in my office, I can hear it working arms length away. 😁
@wabalaka156510 ай бұрын
Imagine rolex come up with this moment. They would have sell it for 100k each minimum on their watch
@wzbmitbbs10 ай бұрын
Half year later you can buy a replica in China for 200$ with 99.99% identical
@altgrey653110 ай бұрын
@@wzbmitbbs No replica for spring drive to this day.
@sdaafasfad10 ай бұрын
@@altgrey6531the only thing that can rival spring drive in terms of how it looks on the dial is the high frequency Bulova quartz movements - but once you look at the mechanics underpinning each movement, spring drive is revolutionary whereas the Bulova quartz movements despite being high frequency, are simply just quartz movement - spring drive is the perfect marriage of traditional mechanical movements with quartz.
@tesmat12439 ай бұрын
@@altgrey6531well the bulova 262khz is quite close
@ronaldcphotography9 ай бұрын
@@altgrey6531exactly, the Chinese can’t reverse engineer it, that says ALOT about the spring drive
@HarmonicVector8 ай бұрын
Magnets truly are a force we take for granted.
@ryangochuico10 ай бұрын
SLGA021 owner here. The stated accuracy of springdrive is being modest. They say +/-1 second per day for 9R65 and +/-0.5 seconds per day for 9RA2 but in actual use case, mine ran at -0.5 seconds for 1 whole month. When i first got it, I wore the watch daily and checked the time every morning against atomic time app on my phone. I stopped checking after a month so i could use my other watches. who knows how much further it could have gone?❤
@chia-mingyang580410 ай бұрын
I own two for more than ten years in total. They both run +3 to +5 sec per month. I wear one of them almost daily and I only need to adjust it once per year.
@ryangochuico10 ай бұрын
@@chia-mingyang5804 magnificent! I haven't owned spring drive for more than 2 years so far since i am new to the hobby (started in 2021). I am curious to know how durable it is in the long term? The one you use almost daily, has it ran this whole 10 years without any servicing? And no problems at all? Thanks ☺️
@ArquillWefronic10 ай бұрын
SLGA009 here. +1 second per month tested over 4 months. The accuracy is something to behold. I don't ever have to think about it, and if I leave the time zone a couple times a year I'll end up zeroing it out naturally.
@ryangochuico10 ай бұрын
@@ArquillWefronic that is spectacular🤩
@smisaraf47498 ай бұрын
That Credor need more love
@SugarKalamay10 ай бұрын
Resellers hate GS because of its resale value. Although GS is very innovative with their watches, their catalog is just too broad. People like the feeling of exclusivity hence the thirst for corny watches that you can only get through a waitlist.
@garyboyle69510 ай бұрын
Those sort of people are idiots then. Who cares what other people think about your watch.
@aditpatnaik265410 ай бұрын
That's because you treat watches as commodities and not as personal heirlooms
@SugarKalamay10 ай бұрын
@@aditpatnaik2654 I think its pretty clear that I'm speaking for the enthusiasts.
@ryangochuico10 ай бұрын
@@SugarKalamaymatamis 😄
@Leon_der_Luftige9 ай бұрын
You define a piece of art by how accessible it is to others?
@dimasakbar76688 ай бұрын
True but if i may be honest, Grand Seiko Hi-Beat also worth to be mentioned. Its just mesmerizing seeing it beat that fast
@bozi136710 ай бұрын
Bro Spring drivo is sooooo good.I love watches alot but if i could chose only spring drive seiko.Fck rolex and those others i swear
@zandertraveler20839 ай бұрын
I love my spring drive! I wear it more than my Daytona or my GMT Pepsi.
@emmanuelthomas15632 ай бұрын
Unbelievable that watxhmakers couldnt make a smoith rotation of the second hand befote this
@bosco2669 ай бұрын
Work of art!
@rickzhang228810 ай бұрын
And yet the old guard snobs look at GS and say "its just expensive seiko"
@Aztec105010 ай бұрын
It’s just a quartz regulated watch
@R023N10 ай бұрын
@@Aztec1050what makes a conventional mechanical movement more complicated than a spring drive?
@ahmadanime75869 ай бұрын
@@Aztec1050It doesn't need battrey swaps tho 😂
@Aztec10509 ай бұрын
@@ahmadanime7586 citizen solar movement can go 25 years without battery swap
@Aztec10509 ай бұрын
@@R023N they are equally complicated, the springdrive chronograph is much more complex than a lot of Patek chrono calibres in term of component count. But the usage of integrated circuit will make the lifespan short, it's literally disposable once the production of the IC ends as it cannot be fixed
@tyroneswift40048 ай бұрын
GS Spring Drive is one of two grail watches for me. The other is a Zenith El Primero
@DONKEYSHIEET9 ай бұрын
I’m just starting to get into watches and hot diggity damn these grand Seikos are really something else
@lpg123388 ай бұрын
What is your favorite style of watches? Dress / Diver / Aviation.
@nhattran45919 ай бұрын
The goat brand
@thephotochad10 ай бұрын
Will trade a kidney for a Grand Seiko.
@YavuzSultanSelimHan147010 ай бұрын
Really 😂
@deschan22469 ай бұрын
Does yr kidney "tick" ?😂
@thephotochad9 ай бұрын
It ticks for this 🤩
@Grayfox988Ай бұрын
As nice as it is, it's still a quartz watch. As for smooth gliding hands, we had that in the 70's with the Bulova Accuquartz.
@redbarchetta8782Ай бұрын
Nope, it's a quartz regulated mechanical watch. That is exactly how it works. It isn't even similar to the Bulova.
@Grayfox988Ай бұрын
@@redbarchetta8782 Quartz regulation makes it a quartz watch by definition.
@raphymartinez8 ай бұрын
This will be my next watch (after my Bel Canto is delivered in a few weeks)
@adamsterdam90499 ай бұрын
my dream watch
@rekonzuken19 ай бұрын
gotta respect Seiko they gave us quartz then spring drive and then constant force tourbillion its like they keep on evolving and innovating just like Rolex
@tesmat12439 ай бұрын
Rolex invented literally nothing except marketing
@Mr11216289 ай бұрын
lol Wtf are you talking about? Rolex innovating like Seiko? It’s nearly the complete opposite! 😂
@eus99 ай бұрын
How many complicated movements do Rolex have in their catalogue? How many have they invented? They are leagues apart from Seiko in that regard
@fiddleofdoom9 ай бұрын
Rolex markets themselves well, that's about the only thing going for them. Their core catalog has barely changed in 60+ years. Sure the movements have improved, but they haven't really innovated much of anything except the marketing hype around the name.
@Ted_Kenzoku8 ай бұрын
Give me one thing Rolex invented. their biggest invention is the oyster case and it's not really that big of a thing
@AXHEJAZ7 ай бұрын
Wow! 😮 Gotta get a couple for my collection
@HishamElfiki3 ай бұрын
Perfection
@sergiogamez.9 ай бұрын
Love itttt!
@giovannilozano49619 ай бұрын
God I love seiko
@claytonclarkson715210 ай бұрын
Incredible
@JuanCruz-et8soАй бұрын
I love this watch ❤ is mesmerizing
@deschan22469 ай бұрын
Its a good precision everyday working watch.
@Wireless_Gadgets9 ай бұрын
why can't Seiko, Toyota, Nisswn and Subaru get together and create a spring drive propulsion vehicle 😄
@christianjlevesque5 ай бұрын
I'm thinking of getting one soon.
@onolicious57778 ай бұрын
I'd rather have a V8 over electric. I'd rather have tubes over transistors. I'd rather have full mechanical tick-tock over spring drive.
@lpg123388 ай бұрын
Me to. 👍
@Steve-tx2il10 ай бұрын
How do spring drive movements get serviced?
@ryangochuico10 ай бұрын
They will have to send it back to japan. BUT i have read a few times they now have the ability to service spring drive in New Jersey for people living in the USA. I haven't looked into that for legitimacy though. My seiko AD in the philippines says they would have to mail any spring drive or high beat movement back to japan for servicing
@gasa11653 ай бұрын
i need to stop watching these because my bank account cant handle it.
@illmannered18 ай бұрын
So it's like a quartz/automatic hybrid? 🤔
@torrak53386 күн бұрын
What is the name of the first one in black?
@evertonperk6618 ай бұрын
That Credor 💦
@NoWhere-wx9gh11 күн бұрын
The more I've thought about it, using a battery or solar to power a mechanical escapement would be more practical. Theoretically easier to service and damn sure easier to regulate. Power reserve won't be as great as quartz but far better than nearly any mechanical or Spring Drive.
@willyscowboyryp20 күн бұрын
It's a great watch, amazing innovation but it's not the favourite amongst collectors.
@Bobmarleej10 ай бұрын
Japanese engineering
@DJPhantomRage2 ай бұрын
My Grail watch. I'm not even after a Rolex or anything like that. It's the Spring Drive then a minute repeater pocket watch.
@mikewazowski61612 ай бұрын
I am german and this is my dream watch...! NOT Rolex ! I love made in Japan...😍
@aluminiumsloep7 ай бұрын
Eat that Nico....
@zephyr20029 ай бұрын
How do the wall clocks at my school get a sweeping glide? I'm pretty sure they're not spring-drive.
@Mobin929 ай бұрын
It's just a regular Quartz, with a little motor that just turns the hands. The special thing about this is that it doesn't need a battery.
@skinny_panda10 ай бұрын
Anyone know what is the Ref # of the blue wave dial at end of video?
@ksu70810 ай бұрын
SLGA019 Lake Suwa
@JMNTN13 күн бұрын
only if grand seiko made actually good looking watches
@doodskie9999 ай бұрын
GS is like the toyota for watches. Their affordable, works reliably and built like a tank. I cant really wrap my mind why people buy 100k watches, I know its a statement piece, but a 10 dollar quartz clock is 1000 more times accurate and reliable than a hundred thousand rolex lol
@mkyhou11608 ай бұрын
Not really -spring drive is difficult and expensive to service. A Toyota would be an ETA movement or a traditional quartz.
@osamu_906 ай бұрын
Casio F-91W:
@Chou00522 күн бұрын
Shock resistant?
@explorerjlc17438 ай бұрын
SD wasnt a GS flagship, it was a Seiko innovation
@Menda_LerendaАй бұрын
the first luxury prius, hybrid, twice as troublesome. Bulova did it simpler and before
Sometimes I see cheap wall clock has that gliding second hand. I double that is a spring drive😅
@planespeaking8 ай бұрын
This is a wind up electronic watch. I have a 70's Tissot one that uses coils like this but used a battery to power it not a generator like this Seiko. If you watch Mad Men S6 they talk about the Accutron electronic watch.
@kd34464 ай бұрын
I’m going to get me GS it’s undervalued compared to other big brands maybe they might license the Tech to Rolex for one watch design only that would be cool….
@bobbylinkov26715 күн бұрын
During the video Nico Leonard got triggered 😃
@serivina_freiheitskampfer19369 ай бұрын
😍
@TheFlyingFishy6 ай бұрын
The people who are hating on it, are sore that their favorite brands could be stomped, by a cheap alternative. Grand Seikos Spring drive will always be superior to standard automatics.
@izakshuvo84346 ай бұрын
They grow their own crystals? SUPERMAN CONFIRMED!
@ilanpi6 ай бұрын
This was first invented by the Swatch Group, published in 1997.
@MrPhotographerDude8 ай бұрын
Who said the Japanese never innovate and always copy and improve on what existed before? I'd rather have a Grand Seiko SD or a Rolex.
@jeebusmcfries81149 ай бұрын
is there a video of a spring drive on a timegrapher?
@Mobin929 ай бұрын
It doesn't have the part which makes tick tock. The Grapher won't read anything.
@jeebusmcfries81149 ай бұрын
that's my hypothesis, i just want to see if anyone actually tried@@Mobin92
@tesmat12439 ай бұрын
No because it makes no sound
@lpg123388 ай бұрын
@@Mobin92Exactly, there was a video of a spring drive placed on the equipment and no data was gathered.
@Seffsqautch9 ай бұрын
Can anyone tell me what model that blue, rippled dial is?
@MinuteMon9 ай бұрын
Grand Seiko SLGA019, we sell it at our shop Carat & Co. as an Authorized Dealer
@Seffsqautch9 ай бұрын
@@MinuteMon thanks!! It’s stunning and I’m going to keep my eye on it and start saving up for it!
@ivanferrera10 ай бұрын
This is what I thought
@ruiguo082410 ай бұрын
It's a massive innovation over the traditional Swiss mechanical movements; but probably insignificant compared to quartz movement on a technical level, especially solar or motion powered quartz watches. The latter are still far superior in terms of accuracy, durability and consistency.
@jobaershovon763726 күн бұрын
Those guys at GS need to chill.
@30apexsys710 ай бұрын
I have seen a wall clock that as almost as smooth as yhis
@dylantosta42189 ай бұрын
Awesome, yet expensive...
@riardomilos80149 ай бұрын
Arguable.. It's expensive but you get some of the best features in watches and it's handmade personally, with rolex it's way more pricier and it's mass manufactured, they sell the brand not the watch.
@lifeisgood0709 ай бұрын
Buy me one
@user-cn2he1uu1d5 ай бұрын
King Seiko has almost the same thing.
@imranzafar17817 ай бұрын
Amazing how much info was covered in 1m
@halrox2477 ай бұрын
And yet a $40000 Rolex needs to be brought back in for maintenance 2-3 times a year because they don’t want to bother modifying the mechanics to solve a problem Seiko did 20 years ago.
@mike440210 ай бұрын
Basically using an automatic movement to run a quartz watch.
@NotASeriousMoose9 ай бұрын
Just stop smoking crack 😂
@Leon_der_Luftige9 ай бұрын
Without a battery.
@grandiora4 ай бұрын
It will be a sad day when the electronic circuits in the watch inevitably fail
@k9teamzagrebskolazapse14910 ай бұрын
Too me this is best watch in the world. And I get Seikos (they haw nothing with GS ), but I think that name seiko is not fear for warch whic is beter and acurate than all other mechanical. So name Seiko must goo, that kills that prestige superacurate brand,all I'm house exe and much more.
@robertoceferino1456Ай бұрын
Gotta be honest. I still don't know how it works.
@Soulheads-yy3zq10 ай бұрын
This is wonderful but in a world of heritage and economic ‘differences’ and brand clout i feel it will be admired by many but bought by few.
@Leon_der_Luftige9 ай бұрын
Seiko for extreme precision Damasko/Sinn for absurd sturdyness. The rest are just selling the name for bragging rights.
@toddallgier91410 ай бұрын
Find one you like and it will be in limited production and you will never be able to buy it. Good old Grand Seiko.
@lukemccann202410 ай бұрын
Citizen have spring drive 😂
@aybeeaa86628 ай бұрын
Thats just too much its just a watch and its job is to tell time
@lpg123388 ай бұрын
Well, time is the most important unit of measurement in human existence.
@mahefarafidison738810 ай бұрын
Seiko is not enough recognized for his revolutionary technologie. Even it's a brand that made history like Rolex.. Even more that Omega.
@almac920310 ай бұрын
How has Rolex made more history than Omega? That's BS. Go and research Omega history and compare with what Rolex has done.
@HBC4238 ай бұрын
It’s just a quartz watch… powered by a generator
@blakake6 ай бұрын
$10,000
@JamStewAkuryou9 ай бұрын
I subscribed
@jonpaul3868Ай бұрын
Still electrics basically.
@fuloplehel5 ай бұрын
Me and my old mudmaster just watching this really nice movement.
@mathewazzopard81007 ай бұрын
Not impressed, it's a hybrid....
@wanderer11257 ай бұрын
If grand Seiko is really this great. Why is it that only middle class owns them? No billionaire ever wore a single seiko in history and definitely no iconic person
@ninhful9 ай бұрын
Interesting, but I hate the fast talking style.
@g436549 ай бұрын
The gut of a Spring Drive is so... boring and cheap-looking. What a shame.
@MrPasqual110 ай бұрын
It's basically an overcomplicated quartz watch
@tesmat12439 ай бұрын
Any 100k+ mechanical watch is just an overcomplicated mechanical watch
@MrPasqual19 ай бұрын
@@tesmat1243 not the same thing, although prices for mechanical watches are often too high and brand related. The point here is that the timekeeping of spring drive mechanism is dictated by a quartz circuit with a complex drive train but that makes it more a quartz than a mechanical watch
@Ted_Kenzoku8 ай бұрын
@@MrPasqual1 no it's not, it's a mechanical movement that uses a quartz for it's accuracy.
@MrPasqual18 ай бұрын
@@Ted_Kenzoku I disagree: timekeeping is ensured by a quartz mechanism with an overcomplicated mechanical transmission
@johnraba932210 ай бұрын
That is not quartz watch precision. Sorry.
@RandallSlick9 ай бұрын
For anyone outside of Japan, it works right up until it doesn't.
@tesmat12439 ай бұрын
Like any machine ever made in the history of mankind
@Ted_Kenzoku8 ай бұрын
like every other watch, they all need servicing.
@RandallSlick8 ай бұрын
@@Ted_Kenzoku Alas it seems that Grand Seiko don't have extra-Japan service centres. Imagine shipping your Lexus IS300 back to Japan for an oil change, with all the cost and uncertainty that that might involve. A rum state of affairs all told, but not entirely surprising since Seiko merely tolerate foreign interest in their products in much the same way as French wine producers. Me? My money stays in my pocket until a this particular global monolith with a lazy attitude to QC and customer service stops riding on the credulous wallets of fanboys. YMMV of course, but your mileage is doomed.
@Ted_Kenzoku8 ай бұрын
@@RandallSlick sending a two ton vehicle is not the same thing as sending a 100grams wrist watch. and they also have a service center in the USA
@RandallSlick8 ай бұрын
@@Ted_Kenzoku I'm not in the USA and the parallel is exactly valid. Your US service centre will not provide certain services for certain GS watches so off to Japan it must go. If a company can't be bothered to provide local service to factory specs, they can count my business out. As an aside, the Swiss are as bad. Most of the watch industry are lazy and complacent, preying on credulous, wealthy, lazy and complacent 'consumers'. My comparison to the car industry is valid and will remain so until proven otherwise.
@charles-titi849310 ай бұрын
That’s Quartz without a battery, there are electronically components and that defeats all the beauty of mechanical watch 😅 Apple Watch too have swiping hands
@Ted_Kenzoku8 ай бұрын
the spring drive movement is way more complex than the automatic movement of a rolex or a 3hand patek
@MikoMomo9 ай бұрын
That's why GS is a BS NOW DAYS. if you really care about accuracy just get a digital casio. But a mechanical clock without the tik tak is worthless for me.