What Is Seiko Kinetic Direct Drive? An Evolved Quartz Kinetic Movement; The Answer Is Here
We are lucky that Seiko spends as much time as they do in the lab dreaming up new movements. In fact, Seiko watches now come in at least five different movement flavors. You can get a traditional quartz movement, an automatic mechanical movement, a quartz Kinetic movement, a quartz Kinetic Direct Drive movement, and a quartz regulated Spring Drive mechanical movement. Seiko's dream seems to be combining the best of both worlds in terms of quartz and mechanical movements. Arguably the Spring Drive embodies this dream as it looks like an automatic mechanical movement, but has the accuracy of a quartz movement.Before coming out with the Spring Drive movement, Seiko created the Kinetic movement. The idea was simple. Take the rotor from an automatic mechanical movement, and instead of having it wind a main spring, have it charge a battery. This relieved the owner of ever having to replace the watch battery, and gave them the accuracy of a quartz movement. The Kinetic movement was very succe

luxurious SG-4 SILVER OXIDE BUTTON CELL
Miniature button cell 1. 5V. Cross of AG-4, 626 A, 377 A, CX66W and many others. 6.8 mm diameter x 2.6 mm.

Service Recall - still not right, what to do
I went in to the watch shop here in Melbourne Australia to pick up my RG 44mm 26400 H serial. It has the problem a few of you have also had being the minute hand advances (wiggles) about 20 - 30secs when the chrono is started or reset. The watch shop in Melbourne is the only place here who sell AP and they simply charged me about $300 USD to transport the watch to AP service Sydney Australia acting as the middle man. I went to pick it up yesterday and they explained to me that 'its better' and the way the movement is made it is normal for it to do it a little bit. Im not believing this for a $40k plus watch and don't see it happening on other ROO who share the same movement. I forgot to mention the watch is under warranty so the only cost to me is the postage. i am not satisfied with the fix and have told my watch shop to discuss it further with AP Sydney. My research and some of you on here with the same issue have had the movement fixed so mine should be as well. My question is what

Which ROO?
Not many polls on here so of these ROOs which would be your first choice? I pick RG RC.

DJ41 & Sub C Buying Tactic
Hi all. First post here after lurking for several month. So I've identified my next 2 purchases which should (mostly) complete my collection. I'm British but based in the Middle East so want to try and take advantage of the lowish pound rate and VAT refunds. My current watches are a Tag Aquaracer (black sub looking type which is why I bought 8 years ago) and a white / silver faced Omega Aqua Terra 8500 on brown leather with gold hands. It's my usual dressy type watch. It's a lovely piece which I've had many complements but the leather makes it less versatile. The ultimate aim is to add a Sub C and sell the Tag and complement the collection with a DJ41 (blue dial, fluted, oyster). I'm on 2 waiting lists in the UK for the sub but my main concerns are 1) there may be an impending model update in March 2) the watch may become available and I can't collect it as I'm based abroad. So I'm thinking, as I already have the Tag is which fine for daily wear at the moment should I develop a relatio