Solid review. I magically found a pre-owned on eBay for $200. Fingers crossed it’s the real deal.

I just purchased this watch, with the orange dial. There are pros and cons with this watch, and in the end, I believe I'll be satisfied with it. Fortunately, I was able to buy the watch at a discount and used CC points to further reduce the price; I'm in this watch for just over $150.00US. At a higher price point, I believe I would send it back. The biggest problem I have is that in all the reviews and ads for the watch the orange dial appears to be matte. In reality, however the dial is decidedly metallic. I would have preferred the matte finish as appears on the black. Anyway, at my investment point it's a watch I will keep and wear. It does get a lot of attention, and it is very comfortable to wear. One surprise - this is my first experience with a Hardlex crystal. I'm more concerned with dial clarity and crispness that scratch resistance, so I don't HAVE to have sapphire. This crystal has no distortion and minimal glare. Great video review! Thanks!

The affordable GMT movement is what's exciting here.

As the majority of my family lives in California while I am located in Germany I always searched for a GMT watch for daily use. So the Seiko is the perfect match for me. I also own an SKX for about eight years now as a sports-watch for hiking and biking so the design is pretty familiar to me. And i understand Your critizism about that because the GMT doesn't look like a new design. On the other hand this design is pretty perfect - like the crown on 4 and so on. So I have no problems with that. As I have a black SKX I choosed the Blueberry GMT which I highly recommend. It suits to casual wear, but also to business wear. And besides that: Thank You for the explanation between an office and a true GMT watch! Now i got the point. Keep on doing this great work. Best wishes, Hans-Peter

I bought this Seiko and am loving it, can you post a video regarding the GMT hand with quite few examples of different time zones

I have the SSK001. I really like that they did with the hardlex bezel insert. On the 001 it looks grey indoors but takes on an almost chrome like appearance. It's one of my favorite bezels that I have seen Seiko do.

Enjoyed this video and have subscribed! Can we have more Seiko reviews please

New subscriber good video & perspective on the watch 👍

While I like the subtlety of the black version, I'm generally not that interested in this particular type of dive-derived design. I chose to get the RZE Ascentus, which uses the same movement but stylistically fits better with my field-watch heavy collection. Titanium, unique case shape and bracelet (w/ milled parts), and a striking minimal dial, all for about the same price as the Seiko. (At least at pre-order.) Can't do the third time zone trick though, unfortunately, and it has a unidirectional bezel for some reason. But overall, I'm glad I waited a sec and got something closer to my aesthetic tastes.

I bought the SSK 003 (blue dial) and I really love it. I usually daily wear a gold/stainless blue dial Rolex Submariner, but this Seiko 5 Sports GMT has rarely left my wrist since it arrived a few weeks ago.

Love all your reviews man, your fellow Indonesian neighbor here, may I have your opinion for choosing my next watch: Seiko 5 GMT, Tissot PRX 35mm or Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical Right now I only have Seiko SNXF05, Orient Ray 2 and GShock DW5600. Want a new watch for celebrating my upcoming college graduation😀

Great video!!! Cheers mate!

I own this exact model. Love it! The timekeeping is bad. Maybe it’s just mine but mine gains +30 seconds per day which Seiko considers to be in spec. for the 4R34 caliber. I can live with it.

Not sure if you'll see this but I'm considering getting this watch here in the UK - it's being sold for £400 everywhere but I can get it for £320 with a discount code from a high street store. Is £320 a good price for this?

I love my ssk001. The lume is amazing

I have 2 the snn013. I forget the small 22mm and the tuna can but they have to both day and date or I won't look at them. this one I like but no day window ,no crazy about the jubilee. my last was a white ice Daytona but it ha d too much attention so I sold it. it kept bad time. love my seiko.

Thanks for the vid. I had budgeted for this watch, but wound up going with a king samurai in the end.

This is the Seiko SSK001 and the best price that I could find is US$255 with free delivery. MSRP is US$475.

What’s your wrist size?

Sw330 is waht you call office gmt, nobody was complaining. BTW no microbrand will have the charme of this “slim” case seiko watch

I love the cyclops

The 100mtr water resist is a problem with the SRPD diver models. But this is a GMT it is not an skx, so no problem for me. I prefere the 7002 over the SKX anyway, because of the crone position on 4 and not 3.8. For me this is the bigger problem with the reisued turtles, they are all wrong positioned at 3.8 or 4.2

Great review and a beautiful watch but because the other Seiko watches are so good you can spend 20% more money and get a Seiko 100% better.There should be a law that any watch over $300 must have a sapphire crystal.

i wish it had a sapphire crystal

I REALLY WANTED A SEIKO SRPG57K1 BUT IT LOOKS REALLY BIG AND I HAVE SMALL FORE ARM. . SO IS IT OK IF I BUY THIS ONE INSTEAD?

I’m a new watch guy fascinated with Rolex and have been watching a lot of reviews of this watch. Thank you for the explanation, I do travel a lot so I think I’m looking for more of a true GMT than an office GMT. But at that price point and finding it hard to resist.

I will wait watches with Miyoto 9075.

I've got watches off Ali Express with sapphire crystal and screw down crowns for under $100.

I love the look of these Seiko 5 GMTs. But their build quality is crap compared to Certina and Tissot. Certina DS2 Action Diver GMT have been on sale for as low as about $ 650 - and have case and bracelet of solid 316L steel, sapphire crystal, ETA 2824 Powermatic 80 with 70 hours power reserve. As other reviwers on KZfaq points out, why does Seiko offer hardlex when sapphire crystal really is cheap. I’m surprised about what arrogant move Seiko has done here… Try and feel the steel bracelet of Tissot and Certina… But Seiko is definitely king of lume.

Buyer beware! I went to a jewelry store and the watch they gave me (001) was DOA. Wound it up and nothing happened. Saw on Reddit someone else had a similar experience, but his died after one week. Same exact description as what I saw. If you’re buying this at a brick and mortar store, wind your watch and make sure it works before you go! My guess is there’s a bad batch of these floating around. Luckily they had another watch at the store that they sold me. As far as the actual watch, I just wish this was a true GMT. Didn’t love the jubilee bracelet; switched it for a NATO. It runs maybe 8 seconds slow/day. Annoying, but 🤷🏻.

I bought the Seiko 5 GMT SSK003K1 a few weeks ago. I must say it's a beautiful looking watch and keeps good time, but have noticed it feels heavy on the wrist after wearing it for several hours.

They need to bring back that screw down crown

I would be in for one of these at < $300, above that I don’t see the value. No sapphire crystal, ceramic bezel insert, misaligned bezels, meh.

wrist size?

Hi Abdullah from Abdullah ❤

Wsas gagging to buy a new GMT but I have recently found BALTIC and I can't go back!

It's a mystery to me that Seiko supply their movements to the competition

Wow much saudi riyal sir

I agree with everything he says in this video. I am still in two minds about buYing this watch.time will tell, lol

Your right. If Seiko wants to dial back the specs then the buyer would need to want it BECAUSE it’s a seiko. What I mean is the Chinese are producing very good watches now. They can give everything Seiko used to, even originality as San Martin has started doing.

I like apple watches 😂😂😂. Just kidding guys. I'm drunk.

41h power reserve, crystal glass, no screw crown...what a joke

I doubt that Seiko "is back". They did that solely to compensate for their pandemic losses, while at the same showing the old fanbase the middle finger by ensuring that literally none of the skx parts are compatible with any of its parts, up to the bezel insert.

who needs a 2nd time zone seriously ?