How Grand Seiko Spring Drive works

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9 ай бұрын

How does Grand Seiko Spring Drive work and how does it compare to a traditional mechanical Watch? 🤔
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@popomomo12 9 ай бұрын

The sword edit had me 😂😂😂😂😂

@kayless32 5 ай бұрын

Samurai 😂

@threethrushes 9 ай бұрын

Beautiful.

@TheEugenePiano 9 ай бұрын

I’ll tell you how it works. It works extremely well!

@TheMeditron 8 ай бұрын

Spring drive is basically magic and I straight love it.

@redbarchetta8782 9 күн бұрын

When art and technology come together.

@gushlak3983 9 ай бұрын

yooooo that gmt at the end is gorgeous

@twwtb 2 ай бұрын

Gotta love Seiko for their innovation. Eagerly awaiting my first, a lowly Seiko 5 field watch.

@spencerschulz626 2 ай бұрын

Nice! Seiko 5 is basically the same quality finishing you’d find on a submariner or Hamilton kaki

@bricesuire5072 2 ай бұрын

@@spencerschulz626no. The Seiko prospect lx line is. You got that wrong brotha. The Seiko 5’s the 200 to 600 dollar ones don’t touch the Rolex. They have a 4r36 movement which isn’t bad. You can get it to even +/- 5 seconds a day.

@richardlyman2961 2 ай бұрын

@@spencerschulz626That is not true, Rolex is leagues ahead of seiko’s entry-level models. Rolex has excellent finishing. Saying this as a GS owner and seiko fanboy.

@john-paulsilke893 Ай бұрын

@@richardlyman2961 agreed. I love my Seiko 5 collection it’s awesome. But it’s nothing compared to my Daytona, (which I just sold to help finance a house along with my GS Snowflake 😢). And I too am a fanboy, nobody does a dial face like Grand Seiko! (Bracelet is good, not fantastic unlike even a cheap Rolex).

@richardlyman2961 Ай бұрын

@@john-paulsilke893 I have an evolution 9 and the bracelets are a lot better now but still lack micro adjust

@wabalaka1565 9 ай бұрын

Imagine rolex come up with this moment. They would have sell it for 100k each minimum on their watch

@wzbmitbbs 9 ай бұрын

Half year later you can buy a replica in China for 200$ with 99.99% identical

@altgrey6531 9 ай бұрын

@@wzbmitbbs No replica for spring drive to this day.

@sdaafasfad 9 ай бұрын

@@altgrey6531the only thing that can rival spring drive in terms of how it looks on the dial is the high frequency Bulova quartz movements - but once you look at the mechanics underpinning each movement, spring drive is revolutionary whereas the Bulova quartz movements despite being high frequency, are simply just quartz movement - spring drive is the perfect marriage of traditional mechanical movements with quartz.

@tesmat1243 8 ай бұрын

@@altgrey6531well the bulova 262khz is quite close

@ronaldcphotography 8 ай бұрын

@@altgrey6531exactly, the Chinese can’t reverse engineer it, that says ALOT about the spring drive

@lpg12338 7 ай бұрын

Spring Drive is an impressive technology, but one of the reasons way I like mechanical watches, is because of the tick tock sounds. Of all the watches that I have owned, Longines has the best sound. If its quite in my office, I can hear it working arms length away. 😁

@smisaraf4749 8 ай бұрын

That Credor need more love

@emmanuelthomas1563 Ай бұрын

Unbelievable that watxhmakers couldnt make a smoith rotation of the second hand befote this

@SugarKalamay 9 ай бұрын

Resellers hate GS because of its resale value. Although GS is very innovative with their watches, their catalog is just too broad. People like the feeling of exclusivity hence the thirst for corny watches that you can only get through a waitlist.

@garyboyle695 9 ай бұрын

Those sort of people are idiots then. Who cares what other people think about your watch.

@aditpatnaik2654 9 ай бұрын

That's because you treat watches as commodities and not as personal heirlooms

@SugarKalamay 9 ай бұрын

@@aditpatnaik2654 I think its pretty clear that I'm speaking for the enthusiasts.

@ryangochuico 9 ай бұрын

@@SugarKalamaymatamis 😄

@Leon_der_Luftige 8 ай бұрын

You define a piece of art by how accessible it is to others?

@HarmonicVector 7 ай бұрын

Magnets truly are a force we take for granted.

@dimasakbar7668 7 ай бұрын

True but if i may be honest, Grand Seiko Hi-Beat also worth to be mentioned. Its just mesmerizing seeing it beat that fast

@bozi1367 9 ай бұрын

Bro Spring drivo is sooooo good.I love watches alot but if i could chose only spring drive seiko.Fck rolex and those others i swear

@bosco266 8 ай бұрын

Work of art!

@ryangochuico 9 ай бұрын

SLGA021 owner here. The stated accuracy of springdrive is being modest. They say +/-1 second per day for 9R65 and +/-0.5 seconds per day for 9RA2 but in actual use case, mine ran at -0.5 seconds for 1 whole month. When i first got it, I wore the watch daily and checked the time every morning against atomic time app on my phone. I stopped checking after a month so i could use my other watches. who knows how much further it could have gone?❤

@chia-mingyang5804 9 ай бұрын

I own two for more than ten years in total. They both run +3 to +5 sec per month. I wear one of them almost daily and I only need to adjust it once per year.

@ryangochuico 9 ай бұрын

@@chia-mingyang5804 magnificent! I haven't owned spring drive for more than 2 years so far since i am new to the hobby (started in 2021). I am curious to know how durable it is in the long term? The one you use almost daily, has it ran this whole 10 years without any servicing? And no problems at all? Thanks ☺️

@ArquillWefronic 9 ай бұрын

SLGA009 here. +1 second per month tested over 4 months. The accuracy is something to behold. I don't ever have to think about it, and if I leave the time zone a couple times a year I'll end up zeroing it out naturally.

@ryangochuico 9 ай бұрын

@@ArquillWefronic that is spectacular🤩

@ZaHandle 3 ай бұрын

Wow that rivals my casio standard lol

@DONKEYSHIEET 8 ай бұрын

I’m just starting to get into watches and hot diggity damn these grand Seikos are really something else

@lpg12338 7 ай бұрын

What is your favorite style of watches? Dress / Diver / Aviation.

@rickzhang2288 9 ай бұрын

And yet the old guard snobs look at GS and say "its just expensive seiko"

@Aztec1050 9 ай бұрын

It’s just a quartz regulated watch

@R023N 9 ай бұрын

@@Aztec1050what makes a conventional mechanical movement more complicated than a spring drive?

@ahmadanime7586 8 ай бұрын

@@Aztec1050It doesn't need battrey swaps tho 😂

@Aztec1050 8 ай бұрын

@@ahmadanime7586 citizen solar movement can go 25 years without battery swap

@Aztec1050 8 ай бұрын

@@R023N they are equally complicated, the springdrive chronograph is much more complex than a lot of Patek chrono calibres in term of component count. But the usage of integrated circuit will make the lifespan short, it's literally disposable once the production of the IC ends as it cannot be fixed

@tyroneswift4004 7 ай бұрын

GS Spring Drive is one of two grail watches for me. The other is a Zenith El Primero

@zandertraveler2083 9 ай бұрын

I love my spring drive! I wear it more than my Daytona or my GMT Pepsi.

@nhattran4591 9 ай бұрын

The goat brand

@raphymartinez 7 ай бұрын

This will be my next watch (after my Bel Canto is delivered in a few weeks)

@AXHEJAZ 6 ай бұрын

Wow! 😮 Gotta get a couple for my collection

@sergiogamez. 9 ай бұрын

Love itttt!

@adamsterdam9049 8 ай бұрын

my dream watch

@Wireless_Gadgets 8 ай бұрын

why can't Seiko, Toyota, Nisswn and Subaru get together and create a spring drive propulsion vehicle 😄

@JuanCruz-et8so Ай бұрын

I love this watch ❤ is mesmerizing

@HishamElfiki 2 ай бұрын

Perfection

@thephotochad 9 ай бұрын

Will trade a kidney for a Grand Seiko.

@abdullahawan7712 9 ай бұрын

Really 😂

@deschan2246 8 ай бұрын

Does yr kidney "tick" ?😂

@thephotochad 8 ай бұрын

It ticks for this 🤩

@giovannilozano4961 8 ай бұрын

God I love seiko

@claytonclarkson7152 9 ай бұрын

Incredible

@christianjlevesque 4 ай бұрын

I'm thinking of getting one soon.

@rekonzuken1 8 ай бұрын

gotta respect Seiko they gave us quartz then spring drive and then constant force tourbillion its like they keep on evolving and innovating just like Rolex

@tesmat1243 8 ай бұрын

Rolex invented literally nothing except marketing

@Mr1121628 8 ай бұрын

lol Wtf are you talking about? Rolex innovating like Seiko? It’s nearly the complete opposite! 😂

@eus9 8 ай бұрын

How many complicated movements do Rolex have in their catalogue? How many have they invented? They are leagues apart from Seiko in that regard

@fiddleofdoom 8 ай бұрын

Rolex markets themselves well, that's about the only thing going for them. Their core catalog has barely changed in 60+ years. Sure the movements have improved, but they haven't really innovated much of anything except the marketing hype around the name.

@Ted_Kenzoku 8 ай бұрын

Give me one thing Rolex invented. their biggest invention is the oyster case and it's not really that big of a thing

@onolicious5777 7 ай бұрын

I'd rather have a V8 over electric. I'd rather have tubes over transistors. I'd rather have full mechanical tick-tock over spring drive.

@lpg12338 7 ай бұрын

Me to. 👍

@deschan2246 8 ай бұрын

Its a good precision everyday working watch.

@evertonperk661 7 ай бұрын

That Credor 💦

@Grayfox988 Ай бұрын

As nice as it is, it's still a quartz watch. As for smooth gliding hands, we had that in the 70's with the Bulova Accuquartz.

@redbarchetta8782 9 күн бұрын

Nope, it's a quartz regulated mechanical watch. That is exactly how it works. It isn't even similar to the Bulova.

@Grayfox988 9 күн бұрын

@@redbarchetta8782 Quartz regulation makes it a quartz watch by definition.

@Bobmarleej 9 ай бұрын

Japanese engineering

@aluminiumsloep 7 ай бұрын

Eat that Nico....

@DJPhantomRage Ай бұрын

My Grail watch. I'm not even after a Rolex or anything like that. It's the Spring Drive then a minute repeater pocket watch.

@Menda_Lerenda 5 күн бұрын

the first luxury prius, hybrid, twice as troublesome. Bulova did it simpler and before

@gasa1165 2 ай бұрын

i need to stop watching these because my bank account cant handle it.

@mikewazowski6161 Ай бұрын

I am german and this is my dream watch...! NOT Rolex ! I love made in Japan...😍

@Steve-tx2il 9 ай бұрын

How do spring drive movements get serviced?

@ryangochuico 9 ай бұрын

They will have to send it back to japan. BUT i have read a few times they now have the ability to service spring drive in New Jersey for people living in the USA. I haven't looked into that for legitimacy though. My seiko AD in the philippines says they would have to mail any spring drive or high beat movement back to japan for servicing

@doodskie999 8 ай бұрын

GS is like the toyota for watches. Their affordable, works reliably and built like a tank. I cant really wrap my mind why people buy 100k watches, I know its a statement piece, but a 10 dollar quartz clock is 1000 more times accurate and reliable than a hundred thousand rolex lol

@mkyhou1160 7 ай бұрын

Not really -spring drive is difficult and expensive to service. A Toyota would be an ETA movement or a traditional quartz.

@osamu_90 6 ай бұрын

Casio F-91W:

@serivina_freiheitskampfer1936 8 ай бұрын

😍

@kd3446 3 ай бұрын

I’m going to get me GS it’s undervalued compared to other big brands maybe they might license the Tech to Rolex for one watch design only that would be cool….

@TheHoth1 6 ай бұрын

Sometimes I see cheap wall clock has that gliding second hand. I double that is a spring drive😅

@explorerjlc1743 7 ай бұрын

SD wasnt a GS flagship, it was a Seiko innovation

@zephyr2002 8 ай бұрын

How do the wall clocks at my school get a sweeping glide? I'm pretty sure they're not spring-drive.

@Mobin92 8 ай бұрын

It's just a regular Quartz, with a little motor that just turns the hands. The special thing about this is that it doesn't need a battery.

@ilanpi 5 ай бұрын

This was first invented by the Swatch Group, published in 1997.

@jobaershovon7637 10 сағат бұрын

Those guys at GS need to chill.

@planespeaking 7 ай бұрын

This is a wind up electronic watch. I have a 70's Tissot one that uses coils like this but used a battery to power it not a generator like this Seiko. If you watch Mad Men S6 they talk about the Accutron electronic watch.

@ZaHandle 3 ай бұрын

It’s not a generator. It’s the escapement

@MrPhotographerDude 7 ай бұрын

Who said the Japanese never innovate and always copy and improve on what existed before? I'd rather have a Grand Seiko SD or a Rolex.

@TheFlyingFishy 5 ай бұрын

The people who are hating on it, are sore that their favorite brands could be stomped, by a cheap alternative. Grand Seikos Spring drive will always be superior to standard automatics.

@ruiguo0824 9 ай бұрын

It's a massive innovation over the traditional Swiss mechanical movements; but probably insignificant compared to quartz movement on a technical level, especially solar or motion powered quartz watches. The latter are still far superior in terms of accuracy, durability and consistency.

@illmannered1 7 ай бұрын

So it's like a quartz/automatic hybrid? 🤔

@ZaHandle 3 ай бұрын

I see it as a quartz regulated automatic

@skinny_panda 9 ай бұрын

Anyone know what is the Ref # of the blue wave dial at end of video?

@ksu708 9 ай бұрын

SLGA019 Lake Suwa

@user-cn2he1uu1d 4 ай бұрын

King Seiko has almost the same thing.

@izakshuvo8434 5 ай бұрын

They grow their own crystals? SUPERMAN CONFIRMED!

@lifeisgood070 8 ай бұрын

Buy me one

@ahmedaaa8867 9 ай бұрын

How much?

@30apexsys7 9 ай бұрын

I have seen a wall clock that as almost as smooth as yhis

@ivanferrera 9 ай бұрын

This is what I thought

@halrox247 6 ай бұрын

And yet a $40000 Rolex needs to be brought back in for maintenance 2-3 times a year because they don’t want to bother modifying the mechanics to solve a problem Seiko did 20 years ago.

@dylantosta4218 8 ай бұрын

Awesome, yet expensive...

@riardomilos8014 8 ай бұрын

Arguable.. It's expensive but you get some of the best features in watches and it's handmade personally, with rolex it's way more pricier and it's mass manufactured, they sell the brand not the watch.

@jeebusmcfries8114 8 ай бұрын

is there a video of a spring drive on a timegrapher?

@Mobin92 8 ай бұрын

It doesn't have the part which makes tick tock. The Grapher won't read anything.

@jeebusmcfries8114 8 ай бұрын

that's my hypothesis, i just want to see if anyone actually tried@@Mobin92

@tesmat1243 8 ай бұрын

No because it makes no sound

@lpg12338 7 ай бұрын

@@Mobin92Exactly, there was a video of a spring drive placed on the equipment and no data was gathered.

@grandiora 4 ай бұрын

It will be a sad day when the electronic circuits in the watch inevitably fail

@Seffsqautch 9 ай бұрын

Can anyone tell me what model that blue, rippled dial is?

@MinuteMon 9 ай бұрын

Grand Seiko SLGA019, we sell it at our shop Carat & Co. as an Authorized Dealer

@Seffsqautch 9 ай бұрын

@@MinuteMon thanks!! It’s stunning and I’m going to keep my eye on it and start saving up for it!

@k9teamzagrebskolazapse149 9 ай бұрын

Too me this is best watch in the world. And I get Seikos (they haw nothing with GS ), but I think that name seiko is not fear for warch whic is beter and acurate than all other mechanical. So name Seiko must goo, that kills that prestige superacurate brand,all I'm house exe and much more.

@Mingzhe583 4 ай бұрын

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 Perfectly smooth watch

@imranzafar1781 6 ай бұрын

Amazing how much info was covered in 1m

@Soulheads-yy3zq 9 ай бұрын

This is wonderful but in a world of heritage and economic ‘differences’ and brand clout i feel it will be admired by many but bought by few.

@toddallgier914 9 ай бұрын

Find one you like and it will be in limited production and you will never be able to buy it. Good old Grand Seiko.

@robertoceferino1456 Ай бұрын

Gotta be honest. I still don't know how it works.

@mike4402 9 ай бұрын

Basically using an automatic movement to run a quartz watch.

@NotASeriousMoose 8 ай бұрын

Just stop smoking crack 😂

@Leon_der_Luftige 8 ай бұрын

Without a battery.

@Leon_der_Luftige 8 ай бұрын

Seiko for extreme precision Damasko/Sinn for absurd sturdyness. The rest are just selling the name for bragging rights.

@mahefarafidison7388 9 ай бұрын

Seiko is not enough recognized for his revolutionary technologie. Even it's a brand that made history like Rolex.. Even more that Omega.

@almac9203 9 ай бұрын

How has Rolex made more history than Omega? That's BS. Go and research Omega history and compare with what Rolex has done.

@JamStewAkuryou 8 ай бұрын

I subscribed

@lukemccann2024 9 ай бұрын

Citizen have spring drive 😂

@jonpaul3868 14 күн бұрын

Still electrics basically.

@HBC423 7 ай бұрын

It’s just a quartz watch… powered by a generator

@aybeeaa8662 7 ай бұрын

Thats just too much its just a watch and its job is to tell time

@lpg12338 7 ай бұрын

Well, time is the most important unit of measurement in human existence.

@fuloplehel 4 ай бұрын

Me and my old mudmaster just watching this really nice movement.

@blakake 6 ай бұрын

$10,000

@mathewazzopard8100 6 ай бұрын

Not impressed, it's a hybrid....

@ninhful 8 ай бұрын

Interesting, but I hate the fast talking style.

@wanderer1125 6 ай бұрын

If grand Seiko is really this great. Why is it that only middle class owns them? No billionaire ever wore a single seiko in history and definitely no iconic person

@johnraba9322 9 ай бұрын

That is not quartz watch precision. Sorry.

@g43654 8 ай бұрын

The gut of a Spring Drive is so... boring and cheap-looking. What a shame.

@RandallSlick 8 ай бұрын

For anyone outside of Japan, it works right up until it doesn't.

@tesmat1243 8 ай бұрын

Like any machine ever made in the history of mankind

@Ted_Kenzoku 8 ай бұрын

like every other watch, they all need servicing.

@RandallSlick 8 ай бұрын

@@Ted_Kenzoku Alas it seems that Grand Seiko don't have extra-Japan service centres. Imagine shipping your Lexus IS300 back to Japan for an oil change, with all the cost and uncertainty that that might involve. A rum state of affairs all told, but not entirely surprising since Seiko merely tolerate foreign interest in their products in much the same way as French wine producers. Me? My money stays in my pocket until a this particular global monolith with a lazy attitude to QC and customer service stops riding on the credulous wallets of fanboys. YMMV of course, but your mileage is doomed.

@Ted_Kenzoku 8 ай бұрын

@@RandallSlick sending a two ton vehicle is not the same thing as sending a 100grams wrist watch. and they also have a service center in the USA

@RandallSlick 7 ай бұрын

@@Ted_Kenzoku I'm not in the USA and the parallel is exactly valid. Your US service centre will not provide certain services for certain GS watches so off to Japan it must go. If a company can't be bothered to provide local service to factory specs, they can count my business out. As an aside, the Swiss are as bad. Most of the watch industry are lazy and complacent, preying on credulous, wealthy, lazy and complacent 'consumers'. My comparison to the car industry is valid and will remain so until proven otherwise.

@MrPasqual1 9 ай бұрын

It's basically an overcomplicated quartz watch

@tesmat1243 8 ай бұрын

Any 100k+ mechanical watch is just an overcomplicated mechanical watch

@MrPasqual1 8 ай бұрын

@@tesmat1243 not the same thing, although prices for mechanical watches are often too high and brand related. The point here is that the timekeeping of spring drive mechanism is dictated by a quartz circuit with a complex drive train but that makes it more a quartz than a mechanical watch

@Ted_Kenzoku 8 ай бұрын

@@MrPasqual1 no it's not, it's a mechanical movement that uses a quartz for it's accuracy.

@MrPasqual1 8 ай бұрын

@@Ted_Kenzoku I disagree: timekeeping is ensured by a quartz mechanism with an overcomplicated mechanical transmission

@jaydenhowton5914 9 ай бұрын

I understand the mechanical engineering brilliance of it, but it’s still not as accurate as my Bluetooth quartz Casio g shock.

@charles-titi8493 9 ай бұрын

That’s Quartz without a battery, there are electronically components and that defeats all the beauty of mechanical watch 😅 Apple Watch too have swiping hands

@Ted_Kenzoku 8 ай бұрын

the spring drive movement is way more complex than the automatic movement of a rolex or a 3hand patek

@MikoMomo 9 ай бұрын

That's why GS is a BS NOW DAYS. if you really care about accuracy just get a digital casio. But a mechanical clock without the tik tak is worthless for me.

@lpg12338 7 ай бұрын

Me too, no tick tock, no sale. ⌚

@joechan3388 4 ай бұрын

Seiko Spring Drive's accuracy is one second per day, it seems it is not very good in accuracy. There are many watches on the market can achieve accuracy 5 to 10 seconds per year.