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Thanks to all for the helpful replies (and photos) :) Someday soon I hope to visit a Grand Seiko AD.
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I think it's important to keep in mind that while GS might not be most well known for one specific watch, the company is famous for incredible finishing, innovative watch-making, and a very cool Japanese sensibility and history.
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Snow flake, and now the white birch and the lake suwa.
Takes 2 months to manufacture each dial from beginning to end. Hats off to the employee at GS whose sole job is to stamp the dials over the period of time necessary to produce the correct shape & pattern. To ensure that every production batch passes muster, they even have QCs whose sole responsibility is to visually inspect every batch of watch hands. Such simple, even monotonous jobs but yet no one seems to belittle or think such a simple job is beneath them. Wonder if it’s a Japanese cultural thing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
6 March 2023, 07:33 AM | #38 | |
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Whether it be the finest manifestation of the art of Samurai sword making or the detail that may go into making a high end Moving Coil stylus for HI-FI where the precision of the hand wound windings of ultra fine copper wire are virtually unsurpassed and on to the detail in the GS finishing of hands dial furniture and Wristwatch cases. On reflection(no pun intended) I wonder if their Grammar of Design which culminated in the creation of the 44GS and 45KS styled watches was the catalyst for the pursuit of Zaratsu polishing. After all, with so much real estate that is comprised of what can be described as broard flat surfaces with those case styles. The watches would look pretty cheap and unfinished if they weren't pursuing polishing perfection right from the start with their adherence to their Grammar of Design. The same applies to their classic hands that are used with light coloured dials which are polished all over What really gets me is to their credit, is they even polish the underside of the hands espacially where there is a light coloured dial because of the mirror like qualities of every facet of the hands and dial markers below. I have a GS where even the finest imperfections in the polishing of the hands is evident if I observe them at just the right angle and position with the light hitting them just right. Of course, I think the fact that the underside of the Crystal has AR coating makes such observations much easier as well |
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6 March 2023, 07:46 AM | #39 | |
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Someone has to conceive the design(stories of inspiration aside), then pattern makers have to make the dies that provide the blank canvas for the people that finish them at various stages after they're probably stamped and punched or drilled at least at 3 separate stages alone It blows my mind how they go about the printing and how good they get it with some of their dial textures like the Snowflake for example. |
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