Visiting Grand Seiko’s Mechanical Watchmaking Studio In Japan

Yeah thanks for the tip and the link.... I am a huge fan of other peoples cleverness and high standards. And the 80 hours run time, because they have designed and made new more efficient low friction double escapes... It's NOT beyond me to be able to design and build a watch exactly like this..... but real world circumstances and life span etc., to figure it all out..... and then do it..... ------ There is a LOT in that..... AND there are the people who design and manufacture all the parts for the watch... and then there are the people who assemble them ---- well the manfacture of the machines to make the parts... I am fairly content to simply admire the workmanship of the people involved in the entire process........

I have ONE watch for life - a Seiko Divers Watch... and I was looking at it. and I noticed the minute ring - is not actually FLAT and a part of the flat internal watch face, it's a separate ring, and it's set at a 45* Degree - and that is so you can read the time (more or less) from any angle... Like so. https://www.grand-seiko.com/us....-en/-/media/Images/G ------------------ https://www.grand-seiko.com/us....-en/-/media/Images/G

It's one of the few watches I really like - because it's so precise and exacting and it's a LOVELY thing to look at.

Bit of a stickler for symatry and exactness..... The watch face is very nice - the hands etc...