In 1 December 1966, the icebreaker Fuji set sail from Tokyo bound for the Antarctic. Those on board represented the 8th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, and they were equipped for brutal ...
Why it matters: it set the blueprint for every Seiko dive watch after.
Based on Seiko’s modern Prospex divers, the special-edition SBDC191 borrows design elements from the SPB14 series. The iconic Seiko 62MAS diver-inspired 40.5mm dial of the watch carefully encases ...
Japanese watchmaker Seiko is celebrating sixty years of dive watches by adding a trio of limited-edition timepieces to its Prospex collection. It was in 1965 that Seiko received a letter from a ...
One look at Seiko‘s early dive watches tells you they were intended to be tough tools, plain and simple. So it’s a little ironic that decades later they’ve become fetishized by collectors and ...