Just launched is that this Grand Seiko Spring Drive GMT SBGE249 Restricted Version watch executed in collaboration with Timeless Luxurious Jewelers in Texas. Timeless opened the primary Grand Seiko boutique in america a number of years in the past, and I imagine that is the primary partnership Grand Seiko has executed of this kind within the U.S. The SBGE249 is a metal Spring Drive GMT with what’s known as the “blizzard” dial and is proscribed to 250 items every priced at $5,900.
I don’t suppose it’s unreasonable to imagine that Grand Seiko consumers within the U.S. proper now are seemingly individuals who journey a good bit or are “worldly” of their skilled or private lives. Contemplating this and the way sizzling GMT watches are proper now, it’s not troublesome to know the model’s calculus right here.
I’m sporting this new Grand Seiko SBGE249 as I kind proper now and I can actually really feel it on my wrist because it’s executed in metal. Many GS watches like the ever-present “Snowflake” SBGA211 are executed in titanium, which makes them nearly disconcertingly light-weight on the wrist. The SBGE249 is housed within the 41mm-wide and 13.8mm-thick 44GS-style case, identical to that discovered on the non-limited Spring Drive GMT fashions just like the SBGE211 and SBGE205.
The “blizzard” dial was first launched again in 2010 with the model’s 50th Anniversary items just like the SBGA055, however I feel 2015’s SBGA125 is probably going probably the most well-known Grand Seiko with this dial. In design and aesthetic, this new SBGE249 is a GMT-infused successor to the SBGA125 in some ways. Grand Seiko has a aptitude for portray idyllic photographs, and the story behind this dial is not any completely different — mentioned to be impressed by a blizzard within the Japanese city of Shirojiri (which is the place their Shinshu Studio is situated). Seeing as how I’m in Los Angeles in the course of the summer season, simply studying these phrases is cooling me down.
The motion right here is the tried and examined 9R66 Spring Drive GMT, which has a 72-hour energy reserve. It’s seen by means of the exhibition caseback, which has the Grand Seiko lion emblem executed in a blue that’s similar to the tone that’s discovered on the dial.
Grand Seiko is exhibiting no indicators of slowing down post-Baselworld, and this appears to be very true for its enlargement in america market. At Couture 2019 in Las Vegas, GS dropped the USA unique “Season” Assortment, most likely probably the most talked about releases on the present. In reality, I ended up preordering the SBGA413 Spring Version with the sunshine pink “Sakura” dial from the Grand Seiko boutique in Beverly Hills final week.
The Grand Seiko Spring Drive GMT SBGE249 Restricted Version collaboration with Timeless Luxurious Watches checks loads of bins in the case of the issues that draw individuals to the model. It doesn’t take loads of dangers, however I don’t actually thoughts that, contemplating the sheer variety of distinct and various releases from the model this 12 months. Once more, this can be a restricted version of 250 items and the watch is priced at $5,900. To learn extra about or order the SBGE249, you may head right here to Timeless Luxurious Watches.
