You are SO lucky to have this watch! I think it's a beautiful, classy, somewhat understated watch. I would own one if I could afford it. The spring driver is awe-inspiring.

Nicely done video and review. Love hearing your enthusiasm for the watch. Many people don't vibe with Spring Drive. I'm the opposite, so it's nice to hear from someone else who does, too. The details around why you feel the way you do was really great to hear as well. Thanks for sharing! Just subscribed. :)

Great watch. By the way, most of the SARBs, not to mention SARG and many other Seikos (particularly the JDM models) costing only a few hundred dollars have sapphire crystals. I'm with you on the stealth aspect. I have a SBGX059 and SBGM027 and I many times enjoyed telling people it's just a Seiko when I didn't want to draw attention, while also telling someone who knows watches it is a GS and enjoyed conversing about fine watches.

Great review - thank you and congratulations on acquiring such a beautiful piece. I own a close cousin, GS SBGA111 and love it. Kudos to GS team for making such wonderful watches. Enjoy!

Beautiful piece!!GS is been on my radar for awhile...Ready to pull the trigger after this review

Thanks so much for this video! This is definitely one of the watches I desire most. Really admire its beauty.

Amazing craftsmanship of the dial, hour markers, hands... Paired with Spring Drive it really is truly astonishing dress watch. Congratulation on your acquisition!

Great review. Love all the Grand Seiko, the 9R, 9S, and 9F, in particular, this Snowflake.

What an amazing video and watch, well done!!

Just ordered mine. Can’t wait to get it. So sweet!

Not to take anything away from it, I own and love this watch. But the dial is made from a uniform stamping process, and so all of them actually have the exact identical texture down to the individual ridge. On the other hand, you mention the factory specs of plus or minus 1 sec a day... In reality these tend to run closer to 2 sec per WEEK, often better. Mine is about 3sec per Month.

The snowflake is gorgous! I saw one in IRL, recently. I really love it!

I'm with you on the under the radar thing. It's like cars; some people prefer an understated quality sleeper to an audacious supercar.

I checked one of these out yesterday. They truly are beautiful

Stunning piece, mate!

as for bullet proof, I wore mine for about 2.5 yrs every day and I work around Heavy equipment! I have physically cringed several times from a few licks the thing has suffered but it is still flawless to my eye! I finally retired it to the safe and only bring it out on occasion now but I would not worry about damaging it at all!

I was torn between the Snowflake and the GMT high beat with blue 24 hour hand and silvery white dial. I went with the GMT SBGJ001 and love it. I know you will enjoy your snowflake

Great video I just got my grand Seiko snow flake my holy Grail watch last week . I to got mine used the previous owner had all the polishing buffed out so it now has that stealth titanium look I actually like it this way . An the accuracy is over the top almost accurate that's my grand Seiko Quartz is that good

Stunning watch my fellow watch guy@ love to get 1 in black😊 Happy timing

What a gorgeous timepiece! I have a small Seiko collection, some being vintage, which includes a King Seiko from 1968 with the gold medallion on the caseback, and some modern, like the SARB033 and SARB035. One of these days I hope to add a stunning GS like yours! BTW, both my SARBs have Seiko's 'Hardlex' see-through casebacks but their front crystals are actually sapphire, so there a few lower priced models that use sapphire rather than their proprietary hardened glass.

I really enjoyed your review. Thank you.

Just superb! I want one!

You buy Rolex to impress others and you buy GS to impress yourself.

Will be getting one next month during cherry blossom season in Tokyo. I have tried this watch and the way the lugs and the watch sits on my wrist is comfortable. I tried the 44gs case as well, they sit slightly high, felt small and not as comfortable as this snowflake. What i like most is how light the watch is and the dial is mezmerizing.

Another great video, really enjoy your stuff man. As for the Snowflake, I have tried so hard to love this watch, and have had quite a few opportunities to pick one up pre-owned for a decent price, but I always hesitate. Titanium is a favourite of mine, GS is a favourite of mine, and the snowflake dial is gorgeous. But as much as everyone raves about the perfect glide of the spring driven second hand, that's probably the thing that ultimately puts me off the watch. Don't get me wrong, Seiko tech is very inspiring, but I absolutely love the jagged mechanical sweep of a 'regular' mechanical watch's second hand. That said, I'm still most likely going to get a Snowflake one day. I guess the sum of its parts... :-)

Amazing watch. I have the 2017 model and love it

Just got mine. Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Awesome GS! I have a gmt model and thinking about adding a second one. Wear it in good health.

I purchased my Snowflake about a year ago and the watch continues to keep perfect timing.

great purchase! Do you still have it? Have you added any other GS to the collection?

When I bought my GS from an AD I attributed that box sleeve removal, at presentation, as part of the customer experience. Nice touch.

I have also a Snowflake (SBGA011, so the old version) and half of the fun is playing with the light and see how it shines on the dial, hands, but also the GS logo that reflects a quality rarely seen in this price category. It's my first love and no matter what no watch will replace it's place in my heart. That being said, I think the size of 41 mm is too big. I know most dress watches of Grand Seikos are 40 mm are a litte big bigger, but 38 mm would fit this watch much nicer. I know there's a version of 38 mm (with a red second hand I believe).

This watch is better than the Rolex Datejust, AND it doesn't attract as much attention/judgment. Exactly the same reason why I bought one of these, I agree completely. People aren't supposed to judge you, but they still do.

Amazing dial. That alone looks like a deal maker.

I wish they would move the power indicator to the back, or reduce it to just the needle. I've never liked that intrusion, especially on such an unbelievably beautiful dial. Very few watch dials pull off power indicators well.

Best watch! I have the high beat version. It's the best watch ever!!! Got It from Govberg for a great price. Only thing I can't stand about the snowflake is the push pins on the bracelet. They need to use screws. I have the seiko sumo and I butchered the bracelet trying to size it.

I really love my Snowflake- other than a couple of Astrons this is the most accurate watch I've ever owned- hadnt worn it in a couple months and it was only 7 seconds of atomic clock.

The blue second hand is so beautiful

Great Stuff. GS is so very underrated. I have the spring-drive, the hi-beat, the quartz, but, it's the Three Centre Hands Manual Winding mechanism that gives me the most satisfaction. The epitome of high horology is the Three Centre Hands manual wind mechanism, with a long minute hand, and an even longer second hand. Even in Patek and Lange, the manual wind watches are either 2 hands or with a sub second hand. They reserved the Centre Three Hands for their highest range, so high that hardly anyone can reach them. For a connoisseur, a luxury watch maker must have a Three Centre Hands collection in their stable, the basis of all other good mechanical watches. For GS, there is the SBGW series. I bought the SBGW231, the latest for 3K. It runs for more than 3 days fully wound, and only off by +1 sec in that three days. The hands and indices sparkle like diamonds against an equally beautiful custard dial. My calatrava which cost many times more just cannot match up. The back case has more details than my Nautilus which is plain. As for the finishing of the mechanism itself, you put the two together and see for yourself. And mind you, the Nautilus cast a lot lot more. Then again, both the calatrava and the nautilus are not the Three Centre Hand mechanism. You need a very good mechanism to carry a long minute and second hand. I can see that my Hulk and Batman has very short minute hand as compared to my other GS sport watches. Where are all the good man!

lol, "Can not look away".... I have the same problem with my Snowflake! Glad to know I'm not the only one. HAH!

As far as collectibility, I think the SEIKO versions will be more collectible than the redesigns of the same watches. If I ever buy another one (and believe me there are probably 10 or so that I would love to own), I would look for the SEIKO version and probably choose that over the redesign, in most cases.

If it had a day indicator, that would be in my shopping cart soon. Not sure why GS doesn't have any model that goes with a day function. To many people it's tedious but to me the day indication is useful.

I bought this together with an SBGH001 because I could not for the life of me choose one over the other. I am glad I bought them prior to the deletion of the Seiko logos on the GSes, I prefer them with the SEIKO there, it adds to the low key appeal.

Why does your one say Seiko at the top. I’m looking at one on the Australian website and it just has grand seiko and gs at the top?

Its my favorite Grand SEIKO thank you, and what dealer did you get the watch at if that's ok👏👏👏👍 just subscribed

how much and is there a service for this watch? how long can it last cos of electric on it can it be broken ? I rly like this watch!

To me it looks darker than stainless steel. It looks beautiful though. Hope you enjoy it.

"Grand Stealth", I love that statement hahahaha

you can get sapphire on some JDM Seikos or on the Pressage line

Enjoyed the review - A quoted accuracy window of 2 seconds a day doesn’t seem very accurate for a quartz crystal regulated watch even if it is much more precise than a traditional escapement watch. I noticed one of the comments here quoted 3s a month! I’ve also heard that the Spring Drive mechanism is as precise as a normal quartz watch but Seiko are just very conservative with their accuracy stats. Interesting to hear how your watch is keeping time so far...

Where can you get a 011 nowadays? I prefer having both logos on the dial

Beautiful watch, the titanium really pops the Slowflake dial. I own a Datejust and a Snowflake.. I love both, but I can't in all honestly claim the finish is better on the Rolex, its not.

FYI the seiko alpinist ($400) has sapphire glass...

I love these watches and the craftsmanship is clearly amazing. However, what's not so great is how the bracelet fits the watch. There is a bit of a gap between the solid end link of the bracelet and the lugs of the watch. Once seen, can't be unseen for me.

What happened to the rice paper?

What are your thoughts on the new version of this watch (SBGA211)?

I love that understatement that the Gs has... I would take it any and everyday over a Rolex ;).

Absolutely stealth is the way to go

how is the scratch resistant on titanium? helps or same as steel?

3 minutes in to a nice review I hear yet again that titanium straps won't take screws but need pins. As I type my Omega PO liquid metal in titanium has screws in the titanium strap winking at me... WTF. Nevertheless I have one of these (GS) on order, hence watching this video.

I would like them to brand them grand seiko and remove Seiko I love this watch beautiful

You are not supposed to wear a watch in front of your wrist bone. Meant to be right behind it so you can still move your wrist around and it looks better that way too.

I hope GS release a version without the Date window and power reserve.

would you have problem using it in dark? Thanks.

amazing watch do you still have it ?

How has the titanium held up long-term???

I will buy one for myself when I have made it in life.

Bizarre that the cocktail time doesn't use sapphire, both the Alpinist SARB017 and the baby grand seikos SARB033/035 use sapphire. The Spring drive is infinitely smooth because of the magnetic brake - no balance wheel! (But I think you knew that :)

This is one of those watches where it costs thousands; is unique in drive and accuracy without needing a battery nor an atomic clock; can be worn as a sport watch but how does it not maintain acceptability at any kind of dinner with that snowflake dial. Now the options of different dial faces has come up. Now we want to know which is more collectible. Originality is very cool, like a rookie card. However, moving to its own branding is more characteristic of a high end watch. A VW is not a Porsche.

is the size small? I have a small wrist

Whats your job? How do you fund your great collection?

geezzz...its like car owner manual. very hi quality product.

Where I can buy this "Pre ownered" please

I like Seiko (owner of the MM300 and SBDC051), but I think at this price I would rather have an Omega Aquaterra co-axial. I want to like this watch, but it just doesn't do it for me. Dial looks like pulp paper.

What’s the diff between sbga011, sbga111 and sbga211

Very nice fantastic watch 😀👍🏾How much sir? $? Thanks

Titanium is not an excuse for using friction pins. Especially for a watch bracelet where you dont operate the screws very often, threading into the titanium would be ok. Even better would be a female end on the other side of the bracelet made of steel for the pin to thread into. Friction pins are definitely a negative on this watch and are unnecessary

Can the Grand Seiko give Rolex a run for its money??

No romance? well I love the snow I think that is romance enough.

I am actually very concerned and disappointed that they put the extra links on the same bag without any protection to freely scratch each other 2:30! It is metal and contact with each other and it will damage the pristine​ finishing.

Amazing dial and nice case design but too bad id doesn't have an automatic movement

at this price point ?..hmmm

I'll stick to my Rolexes thanks. 😁😁

Dial reminds me of munched/recycled paper from the 80's.

If you see someone wearing a GS you know they are a watch person.

You damage the watch!!!...Read the instruction pls!!!

Spring drive is better than rolex

What's 'hilarious' is the entire being of this company

No lume. No good.