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Im willing to bet a PRX Chronograph in that purple would look great on the wrist especially If it was a brushed metallic look
Dang those are pretty cool!
i wish I knew how to use photoshop these are some i would do myself if i could:
royal purple dial tissot prx chronograph
seiko snowflake but with a brushed copper dial
just too see what they look like. i wish more companies used brushed copper as a dial option Fears watches has a copper dial watch and its very nice.
Didnt europeans try really hard to influence Japan during their semi revolutionary periods following the rule of Daimyos and Shogunate at the end of the Edo period?
if I recall many european companies predominantly weapons manufacturers were quick to try and be the primary armorers of Japans newly forming central government controlled modern military. And many if not all of these companies had coats of arms emblems.
it only makes sense that the influence did not stop at what weapons to use but also how to market them - with a nicely designed emblem.
i find it almost immature for any european to judge Japanese coat of arms/imperial like emblems when it was europeans who salivated at the opportunity to influence the Japanese at the end of the Edo period. Humans really do have some kind of memory issue.
I find this particular topic a little frustrating due to the fact that if Japan tries to protect its culture from external influence they are labeled as isolationist, racist, etc.. but when they try and diversify their culture and include facets of other cultures they are labeled as something negative as well and of course ppl will complain no matter the direction they take. Its a lose lose for them. :(
Seiko is ”famous” for the misaligned chapter rings because ppl HAD to find a reason to pick at the company. The only real gripe ppl can bring against seiko is their movements dont come with super great accuracy out of the box but even that is for a reason. Their movements are very easy to tune up, and improve. If im not mistaken even the SKX movement can be tuned to within a couple of seconds a day and stays like that for a very long time.
If the misaligned chapter ring are really a problem then why isnt Omegas issues like the seamaster clasps getting stuck a point of discussion when omega is discussed? What about Omegas problems with their movements like the 3313a and 3313b in the older model seamasters? These problems are never discussed when omega is the topic but how come the chapter rings is brought up when seiko comes up?
It seems to me that ppl are nit picking on some very small issues with a handful of models within seiko but are very permissive when other swiss companies have pretty serious issues.
Edit: and seiko is famous for a slew of good things like being among the first companies to release an automatic chronograph, and incredible practices and products such as zaratsu polishing, the development of the spring drive movement, making unique and aesthetic dials, high quality lume, and producing low cost high value pieces like the SKX and now the new SKX GMT’s, and lastly, seiko is responsible for the swiss shutting down their watch competition bc they couldn't compete with the Japanese watch company. In fact, seikos still has modern entries winning swiss/european awards just look at the seiko LX snr0xx diver that won the sports category a few years ago.
so to sum up.. the chapter ring thing is really just nonsensical when it comes down to it.