{"id":32104,"date":"2019-01-11T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T16:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/?p=32104"},"modified":"2019-01-11T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T16:19:55","slug":"focus-seiko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/nouveaute-en-n-en\/focus-2\/focus-seiko.html","title":{"rendered":"Focus: Seiko"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Seiko Prospex 1968 Diver\u2019s Re-creation SLA025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CASE :<\/strong> stainless steel, transparent domed sapphire crystal, solid caseback, water-resistant to 300m, screw-lock crown offset at 4 o\u2019clock, unidirectional rotating crown, magnetic resistance of 4,800 A\/m<\/p>\n<p><strong>SIZE :<\/strong> 44.8 x 15.7mm<\/p>\n<p><strong>MOVEMENT :<\/strong> mechanical self-winding, high-frequency (5Hz) Caliber 8L55, 55-hour power reserve<\/p>\n<p><strong>FUNCTIONS :<\/strong> hours, minutes, seconds, date<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIAL :<\/strong> black with 4N gilded luminescent hands and hour-markers, applied date aperture<\/p>\n<p><strong>STRAP :<\/strong> silicon with stainless steel pin buckle<\/p>\n<p><strong>1,500-PIECE LIMITED SERIES<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the last Grand Prix d\u2019Horlogerie de Gen\u00e8ve, Seiko once again won a prize, and an important one at that. The Prospex 1968 Diver\u2019s Re-creation was honored as the best Sports Watch of 2018. Four years ago, the Japanese brand had won its first prize in the annual awards, and the movement beating inside the winning watch already belonged to the Hi-Beat family. These self-winding calibers entirely produced by Seiko operate at the rare frequency of 5Hz, corresponding to 36,000 vibrations per hour. So yes indeed, Seiko did choose to fit a high-frequency movement inside an authentic dive watch that is water-resistant to 300 meters and equipped with a unidirectional rotating bezel \u2013 in short, the essentials required for serious immersion. But it was not so much this caliber that was saluted, as a longstanding tradition of efficient dive watches with a distinctive design that are greatly appreciated by both professionals and amateurs, whether experienced or novices, across the entire price range. The prize also rewards a deliberately retro style that is very much in style for dive watches, and also very effective. The case is barrel-shaped with generously beveled flanks, and the dial is highly legible thanks to its gilded accents. What\u2019s more, the Prospex 1968 Diver\u2019s Re-creation offers the appreciable added benefit of a very reasonable price tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seiko Prospex 1968 Diver\u2019s Re-creation SLA025 CASE : stainless steel, transparent domed sapphire crystal, solid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":32101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32105,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32104\/revisions\/32105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}