IT'S HAPPENING 🤯...
...On New Years Eve, no less!
Some Canadian/Japanese apologies for the all caps title, not shouting at you, just excitement.
My bid was accepted and my first Grail is incoming sometime next week! Hell yes it's a second hand watch! Hell yes it's a watch with a smooth second hand!
This ain't NBD for most I know, but it's BD for me.
Now, the Grand Seiko freak, who owns no Grand Seikos, is no more!
Hmm.. does this count as 2022 or 2023 purchase? 🤔
(do we count the pay date, or arrival date? So many questions..)
I know this fit perfectly well under several other posts about new years eve, but owing to my overimportant ego and excitedness, created another post to build excitement 'Crunch-wide for my big event
Pics above can allow some guesses - but I won't reveal until it's acutually received and parked on my desk at home. The countdown is on! 😀
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For some frame of reference: I'm the guy who successfully talked my way in to the GS studio in Shizuku Ishi when it was completely closed for COVID by Japanese gov regulations, and got staff to pose with me while masks were off 😂😮🤪
Ooo: also will give a plug for next weeks Vancouver meetup featuring the world famous @Max
https://www.watchcrunch.com/Max/posts/vancouver-bc-meetup-22841#comment-282573
Would love to hear if you’ve secured any grails this year. I’m always curious what and why we decide is worthy of grail status!
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It's the SLGA007 Lake Suwa!!!
It's the SLGA007 Lake Suwa!!!
Great guess! - that would be the high end of the grail spectrum, but it’s 100% on the list.
But I’m very happy the ‘crunch GS ambassador would pipe in on this ☺️
Gonna go with Skyflake. What a watch!
Congratulations!!! I was in the Beverly Hills GS Boutique this week. Everything looks like a keeper! Looking for my next GS
That’s great! congratulations on a good finish to the year!
happy new year, beautiful grand seiko 🙏🏻
big time congrats
Congratulations!!! I was in the Beverly Hills GS Boutique this week. Everything looks like a keeper! Looking for my next GS
So nice to pop in a try a few on.
And it’s striking how some are blah in pix and yet immaculate on wrist. (And vice versa!)
I'll bite. The Constant Force Tourbillon.
I’m in same boat, but mine isn’t a spring drive (couldn’t swing that). It’s coming from Japan in three days.
Hope you enjoy yours and share some pix!
I’m guessing the spring drive birch, cause the birch is in that collage like 3 times.
Huge congrats and welcome to the club!!
I'll bite. The Constant Force Tourbillon.
I second that! It’s a beast of a watch.
Congrats! Very excited for you!!
It's awesome to send out the year on a high note and start the New Year on a high note...I think you get to count it for both.
One of my most desired watches on my Watch Wall (I keep pictures of my favorite watches that I don't own on the desktop screen) was the Vacheron Constantin Overseas...and it showed up on Christmas Day!
Congratulations and a Happy New Year to you.
Disciples of Grand Seiko, you know the drill. Prep one for initiation
Congratulations. Welcoming the new year with a new watch is awesome. Hope you enjoy the watch. Now that you own a GS, it is our sworn duty to freak out on anyone who says anything bad about GS. /s 😜
Well congratulations! You deserve it! Seeking the grail can be a long journey
I chose Indy pic for a general grail reference, totally forgetting a more brilliant Knight who says Ni reference. Kudos sir 👏
The 9RA5 movement, evo 9 case and the snowy birch forest - it’s an amazing watch! 💪👏🍺
Thanks my good watch friend! 🥳🥳
Exciting times, congratulations. would love to make it to Japan and tour their studios! I fell hard on love with Seiko this year, have now 3 seiko (5 gmt, Arnie, King Samurai) and the most important thing…this arrived straight from Hirosima on Friday 😱😱😱
More info very soon but that watch is on your list, we might have picked the same one 😀
congrats again ann enjoy!
Congratulations!!! 🥳🎉
I want to see all the wrist shots when it arrives! 👏⌚
Happy to see a watch dream fulfilled. Congrats!!
Thank you Jonathan! I’m pumped 😆
For sure, it's gonna be a fun, long ride. 😎
Congrats on the new acquisition. Great way to start '23. I'm considering the SBGE283 as my next GS. Maybe in 2023?
I wore the obscure prospex LX spring drive SNR043, it is the most striking and pricey Seiko I have.
…and when we got more casual and chatty at the end the tour they admitted not knowing model I was wearing😢.
but they were definitely curious when I showed them it was a spring drive and 1 of 200 Seiko model 😇
They manufacture, build and repair watches with 8L35 thru 9SA5 at Shizuku - the full spectrum of mechanicals . So my rare SD Seiko wasn’t well known. 🤷♂️🫤
I love that snr043. It's a great looking watch. And I'm envious of you're Grand Seiko experience.
Exciting times, congratulations. would love to make it to Japan and tour their studios! I fell hard on love with Seiko this year, have now 3 seiko (5 gmt, Arnie, King Samurai) and the most important thing…this arrived straight from Hirosima on Friday 😱😱😱
More info very soon but that watch is on your list, we might have picked the same one 😀
congrats again ann enjoy!
Glad to hear it!!
When needed, Ill write up a horological tour of Tokyo for you and anyone else who’d like my $0.02
I’m excited to hear what you’re getting!
Congratulations!!! 🥳🎉
I want to see all the wrist shots when it arrives! 👏⌚
Cheers Kaysia! Yes, I’ll be kind of a jerk with the volume of glamour shots that are soon to come 😉
Cheers Kaysia! Yes, I’ll be kind of a jerk with the volume of glamour shots that are soon to come 😉
I am 100% here for all those shots!
🤜🤛
Glad to hear it!!
When needed, Ill write up a horological tour of Tokyo for you and anyone else who’d like my $0.02
I’m excited to hear what you’re getting!
That would be lovely, thank you for offering!
Have just posted about my recent watch orgy, with a hint of what that GS beauty could be : https://www.watchcrunch.com/Gauthier/posts/a-watch-tsunami-to-end-2022-22900
Congrats! Great start to 2023!
Congrats! Great start to 2023!
Thank you James!
I’m going to have to be conservative, watch acquisition wise, for the rest of the year 😂
See you next Saturday?
Thank you James!
I’m going to have to be conservative, watch acquisition wise, for the rest of the year 😂
See you next Saturday?
Haha I hear ya. I will have to control myself in 2023 as well. Yup I will see you on Saturday!