Which would you choose?

Conall

Seiko:

Con: Gold hands withs silver marker surrounds

Con: Build quality and 100m

Pro: GMT

Rotary:

Con: Brand

Con: Movement

Pro: Ceramic bezel, milled clasp, solid end links and 300m

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Velomax
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Can we ban these polls? Obviously if you want a watch capible of keeping track of time in two different time zones you will choose A the Seiko 5 GMT. If knowing the day of the week or the amount of time you need to decompress before surfacing is important to you, you will choose the Rotary SCUBA. If you use none of those functions, what does it matter they look practically identical.

MasMinas
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What's the build quality issue with the SSK? I'm not doubting your take on it; I'm just trying to learn about it as the SSK is high on my wish list.

Conall
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MasMinas

What's the build quality issue with the SSK? I'm not doubting your take on it; I'm just trying to learn about it as the SSK is high on my wish list.

Few reviews I’ve seen have mentioned the bracelet feeling cheap and it does have a pressed clasp, I much prefer milled. In practice it doesn’t really matter but if we were all being practical we wouldn’t be interested in automatic watches. I’ve seen strapcode have bracelets for these watches but would rather not want to buy a bracelet straight away.

Chairman_Bored
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I had the non-GMT version of the Seiko, nice watch but what got me every single time I looked at it was that the lume on the hands looked pink due to whatever gold hands and lume combination they used and it really irked me to the point that I sold it after about a fortnight! The pink is visible in that pic too.

I sold it to a mate who’s modded it and it looks lovely now, I wish I just asked him to change the hands for me😂😂

Conall
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Con in comparison to 300m, I am looking to swim/dive with the watch but definitely less that 100m.

Thanks for the advice, I think I would wear either that’s my issue.

Regarding brands I tend to agree with you and certainly don’t have a list of brands I need to buy just for the sake of buying them. Currently I only have a few watches most Casio one of them being a broken Duro which is why I’m looking for a new dive/dive style watch.

Conall
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Chairman_Bored

I had the non-GMT version of the Seiko, nice watch but what got me every single time I looked at it was that the lume on the hands looked pink due to whatever gold hands and lume combination they used and it really irked me to the point that I sold it after about a fortnight! The pink is visible in that pic too.

I sold it to a mate who’s modded it and it looks lovely now, I wish I just asked him to change the hands for me😂😂

I hadn’t noticed the pink until you mentioned it, thanks for pointing that out much appreciated.

Conall
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Velomax

Can we ban these polls? Obviously if you want a watch capible of keeping track of time in two different time zones you will choose A the Seiko 5 GMT. If knowing the day of the week or the amount of time you need to decompress before surfacing is important to you, you will choose the Rotary SCUBA. If you use none of those functions, what does it matter they look practically identical.

Thanks for pointing out the basic features of the watches.

jntbui
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if youre planning to swim/dive i would go for the 300m rated watch, but tbh thats the only reason. for daily use i would choose the seiko 1000 times over