Affordable Vintage: 1970 Grand Seiko 61GS 6145-8000
While Seiko is probably best known for their dive watches, they are also masters of creating hi-end dress watches. Their Grand Seiko (GS) line made its debut in 1960, and continued until the 1970’s. The mechanical Grand Seiko was revived in 1998 and continues production to this day. The most iconic of all the Grand Seiko case designs began as the 44GS in 1966 (manual wind), and culminated in the 61GS in 1968 (automatic). The 61GS line was the result of refinements over the years including technology from the Astronomical Observatory Concours of the late 1960’s.Reviewed here today is a 1970 Grand Seiko 6145-8000. The watch was designed by Taro Tanaka, the first graduate of a college design program hired by Seiko. He wanted to design a watch that would “sparkle brilliantly” while on display, one that would compete with the Swiss watches of the time. He came up with a set of rules that would come to be known as the “Grammar of Design”.The components of

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Beautiful watch
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After thorough review, this watch needs to be in EVERYONES collection.
Let me first start by saying I was wrong.I'll admit whenever someone would bring up Tudor, I'd roll my eyes. All this talk about the Black Bay on the forums. Why would I care about a watch that was budget version of a Submariner? Especially since I have many Rolex divers...... stupid me.My snobbish attitude towards Tudor kept me away from probably one of the best modern sport watches of our time. Fast forward to the Vegas GTG. My brothers graduation was coming up, so I decided to get a Black Bay Heritage ETA for him. I ended up winning another Tudor in the raffle (Hurray TRF!) and chose another BB ETA for myself.I get home, look at it for a bit and throw it in the safe. It might as well have been lost in between all the other watches. Even the Rolex stable wasn't getting much time since I've been in the AP/PP pool, why would the Tudor see the light of day again?Months go by, and I figure why not let's put it on. I love my five digits, but they felt a bit undersized and fragile. My six