King Seiko 5626-7110 | The Best Vintage Dress Watch Around $500!

[@hannesek]

First of all, great video. I agree there is a lack of video material of such wonderful pieces. As a fellow King Seiko fan, and of the KS56 in particular, I want to add a couple of things to the list when hunting for one. 1. It comes in the 5621 (no date) 5625 (date) and 5626 (day date) versions, where the last two has a weakness in the quickset rocker (the only plastic part!), and is often times broken. Vintage Time Australia has recently started producing a replacement in metal. 2. The original crystal is insanely hard to find. It is bonded to a metal ring, and even though some people have had success in separating the two in hot ultrasonic baths and then glueing the ring back together with a generic crystal, it should be taken in to account. 3. The original metal bracelet is hard to find, luckily it looks just as good on leather, and some were even sold on a black croco strap back in the day. 4. The early mono bloc models have a external regulator screw, which allows for fine tuning without disassembly. 5. It's run by the 562x, 25 jewels, 28,800 b.p.h (at the time considered high-beat) unadjusted movement, with a mean daily rate of -6 to +9 secs/day. On a final note, my favorite design is the later models, with thinner lugs and indices. Just looks more refined and really embodies the Grammar of Design. I was fortunate enough to find a Oct -71 5621-7020 (no date) with gold medallion intact. This reference was only produced for one year, before it was replaced with the SS caseback. /H

[@taytzuleong5584]

Thanks for the information bro especially on the movement's rate of -6 to +9 as I tried googling it and found no answers at all :)

[@spitfireaace]

Mine does a second and a half fast per day. 5626 movement from Suwa factory.

[@bobby8737]

We’ll you just talked me out of one

[@longbush]

I've got a 5626-7120 with a slate grey dial, 1972, in lovely condition. Along with my vintage Lordmatic, absolutely my favourite every day wear. Brilliant watches, Seiko at the top of their game.

[@G1NZOU]

I love the inclusion of a day/date, immensely practical. The design just works, simple and clean.

[@frankdux6930]

Just picked up a KS 5626 7041 chronometer. Absolutley love it. Like you say extremely good value, and so refined.

[@silverhawk911]

Really beautiful watches. King Seiko are really under appreciated as compared to Grand Seiko. Really regretted not getting one when they are under a thousand dollars. Thank you for showing us so many beautiful King Seiko watches. Keep up the good work !!! Hope to see more of such content on King Seiko watches.

[@TheMonsterHunterTV]

I just bought this model in the 5626-7111-Version (Stainlesss Steel caseback without the gold-medal). I got a great deal and paid just 400 dollars for a freshly serviced model in great condition. It runs at +1sec a day and i really have to say that this might be the best finished watch in my collection. I am a huge fan of vintage timepieces.

[@wardog5537]

Where did you buy it

[@taytzuleong5584]

I have two KS 5626-7000 1969 with a slightly damaged gold medallion and a 1972 KS 5626-7110 with a non medallion case back. Somehow my 1972 one stopped working, need to send it to check what went wrong

[@christopherspearrin5250]

Beautiful watches....among the dearest to my heart ...I love the story behind seikosha ..seiko are great watches...

[@jp2503]

Hello! I recently purchased my first KS. I was wondering if you could tell me where I could find parts for these. Mine is in good condition but has the black dial, I might want the white one. Also there's a faceted crystal on mine. The original is included but they said it's in pretty bad shape so I would like to find a replacement crystal for this and maybe also the clear display back. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[@camilo862]

Beautiful strap. Could you tell me which model is it? Thanks!

[@andyt6819]

I would like to see more reviews on king seikos and possible lord matics and lord marvels

[@omegaknight01]

I have Seiko LM special 5216. The beast.👍

[@nate.or.nodate]

king seiko's are so underrated right now! def the vintage seiko to capitalize right now. trying to snag myself a 45-700X myself! may I ask, what strap is that? that sure is a great combo

[@Jp_1998_]

The King Seiko looks beautiful! And a review of your SKX013 would be awesome

[@WatchesAndCars]

Thanks, appreciate it! The SKX013 review will be up soon. Regards GAW

[@JB-up4pm]

Great review and history

[@hovinke]

Just bought KS 5626-7113 for 193 $, perfect dial with some not very bothering dent on the case, I light polished it with cape cod and it looks very good with some scratch still visible, but the watch is dead just after 2 hours I receive it. Now it's being serviced for estimated 60$ (overhaul service), do you think this is a good deal? I don't know the service outcome yet, but I guess it's not too bad since I receive it in working condition

[@joegabriel9222]

Nice KS, whats is the leather strap that you have on? Thanks.

[@AlanBuyayo]

What brand is that strap? Really nice color ...

[@theodarius5953]

Beautiful straps, where do you get it?

[@thomashelm6931]

Just received mine today. It's more beautiful "in person".

[@spitfireaace]

very beautiful watches.

[@WatchGeek]

A very very beautiful Watch. I has a king Seiko 56, but sold it and got a 4502 and managed to get a clear caseback for it to preserve the gold Medalion and enjoy the beautiful movement. You can check it out on my channel

[@johnsanabria3279]

Saw your video on the see-thru caseback......good video! I own however, a KS 5625-7000 from1969 in excellent condition for a price well under $500. It cannot be opened from the back,but I truly enjoy wearing a watch whose true value lies under the radar,yet is on a par with Rolex and Omega. The idea of putting a see-thru caseback on it(were it possible) is intriguing, but not something I would do to a vintage timepiece,even if space were given on the metal to display all the info of that particular model. In thinking further,the only thing I could see happening for caseback models like mine is to reproduce the original caseback, but with the see-thru glass and all the info pertinent to the model(especially the serial # and district alphabetical location) for provenance. But this would be prohibitive.

[@lefroy1]

Who made the strap? That's a beauty.

[@rajgill7576]

I have the GS version of this in cap gold (: amazing timepiece very thin

[@rage8kage]

Does the gs version of the 56 series movement also have the plastic date jumper finger?

[@rajgill7576]

@@rage8kage yes, but in Japan yahoo auctions there are some sellers who stock a metal replacement. My date quickset is not working but I have the part ($60ish) just looking/waiting for a good trusted repair person. I might be able to find you a part number if you need, but my watch is packed away in a factory walnut box at the moment (:

[@DarkFreedomGaming3812]

Great video. Thanks william

[@Carlos_Verhaak]

Hi William. Nice review. I am looking for a KS (actually I have a 5626 7080T in mind) but I have some doubts about buying a SARB035 instead. the price is not a key factor. What's the difference between the movements (the sarb has a 6R15)? Thanks a lot and best wishes from The Netherlands.

[@romanoudi]

Where did you get the strap from?

[@dude5172]

Is the watch 36000 bph or 28800 bph

[@stefanlazaralexandru]

can these even be serviced? What would be the price of that?

[@andyt6819]

yeah they can be serviced, they would open through the glass, it would be around 200$ to be serviced

[@HarryUnchained]

@@andyt6819 is there any ks that never been serviced and still running within specs?

[@andyt6819]

HarryUnchained they could be since some are high beats so they could still be accurate but that would be bad for the movement since the oils are dry and it’s metal on metal. I’m no expert btw, this is just my understanding

[@thai-anhnguyen5527]

Where is the best place to buy a vintage king Seiko?

[@WatchesAndCars]

Local forums or Ebay, would be my best advice. Regards GAW

[@yusufabdillahxyz]

Vintage. But don't know, I prefer watch with Roman numeral. Nice vid btw.