Grand Seiko

The Grand Seiko 44GS is the watch that gave Grand Seiko its face. Released in 1967 as reference 4420-9000, built by the Daini Seikosha division, it was the first Grand Seiko to carry Taro Tanaka's des…

We buy and sell Grand Seiko across the counter at 19 West 47th Street every week, and the 9F quartz is the one collectors talk themselves out of and then come back for. Grand Seiko launched Caliber 9F…

The Grand Seiko Elegance GMT is the dress-GMT that quietly outclasses watches costing twice as much, and every week we have collectors bring one across our counter at 19 West 47th Street asking why no…

Evolution 9 is Grand Seiko's design language, first shown in 2020 on the 60th Anniversary reference SLGH002, and it marks the point where the brand stopped borrowing the visual grammar of its 1967 44G…

The Grand Seiko Four Seasons is a quartet of Heritage Collection watches built on the 62GS case, each dial tuned to one of Japan's four seasons: a cherry-blossom pink Spring, a snow-white Winter, a de…

The Hi-Beat 36000 is Grand Seiko running its mechanical movements at 36,000 vibrations per hour, which is 10 beats per second, or 5Hz. Most Swiss automatics of the 1960s ran at 18,000 to 21,600 vph. G…

The Grand Seiko Kodo Constant-Force Tourbillon is the watch that ended the argument about whether Grand Seiko belonged in the same room as the Swiss haute horlogerie houses. Kodo means heartbeat in Ja…

The Grand Seiko Spring Drive Chronograph is the watch we point people to when they say they have never seen a Grand Seiko do something a Swiss watch cannot. It runs on Spring Drive, a movement that wi…

The Grand Seiko Tentagraph SLGC001 is the watch a lot of collectors waited two decades for: the brand's first fully in-house, fully mechanical chronograph. Grand Seiko built plenty of chronographs bef…

Japan's premier luxury watch manufacture, producing movements entirely in-house across three technologies: mechanical (9S series, Hi-Beat 36,000 vph), Spring Drive (9R series, mainspring-powered with …

Ask ten collectors to name one Grand Seiko and eight of them will say the Snowflake. The reference is SBGA211, a 41mm high-intensity titanium Spring Drive watch with a textured white dial that Grand S…

Spring Drive is the reason a lot of serious collectors walk into our store on 47th Street asking about Grand Seiko instead of another Submariner. It is a movement architecture that exists nowhere else…

The Grand Seiko White Birch, reference SLGH005, is the watch that made a lot of Swiss-only collectors walk into our shop on 47th Street and ask to try Grand Seiko for the first time. Introduced in 202…