Grand Seiko Style: Hi-Beat Excellence
Seiko Grand Hi-Beat Day-Date
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EmailWHY WE LOVE IT? When you create a great movement you put it in a gold-case. And when the gold-price is low or you just created an excelling movement (or both, like in 1969) then you use a substantial & heavy goldcase. A very important & horological relevant watch but even without its context and history it is an outstandingly beautiful watch.
The cal61 was Seikos 5Hz Hi-Beat-automatic movement developed in the late 1960s -- by the way a frequency that was first realized by Girard Perregaux in 1966 (GyroMatic) and is now re-discovered by Rolex' and its Land-Dweller cal7135. The cal61 was used in their Special- & VFA-designated variants as well. VFA or Very Fine Adjusted -- the epitome of high-accuracy mechanical watchmaking and excelling the Swiss Chronometer-standard. But although this difference in adjustment might be gone between the VFA and this "normal" cal61, it is the difference in the case (gold vs steel for VFA) which made the difference back-then, today and tomorrow. The price of it was approx double the price of a comparable steel-VFA.
The Grand-Seiko design-language in this watch is obvious.
