What was your worst SEIKO quality control experience?

6r series movements not as accurate as the 4r's 🤔🤯

I haven't had any yet and I've had quite a few Seikos.

However I don't have a timegrapher and don't submit my watches to inspection under a high powered loupe, so there's that.

I do have a 6R15 that runs a bit slow, but it's within the listed spec for the movement and I'm good with that,

Wear on a PVD bracelet. But that's about it.

Misaligned bezel on seiko srpd

You know, I've never had a problem. I know that is hard to beleive but it is the truth, I do think a lot of it has to do with increased expectations of us as collectors. Seiko will have to up the ante to stay relevant and I have faith that they eventually will bring it.

Alpinist with the 6r movement the accuracy is terrible, alignment issues also, by a lot ! £650 watch, bitten once never again.

Never really had a problem 👍

Misaligned bezel on 3 of them ( all sold ) and 6R movement + compas bezel misalignment issue on Alpinist I still have. After being regulated twice at AD and still goes back to 30+s off I just threw in the towel. My experience is they all have some QC issues and with current price increases not buying Seiko anymore until they sort them out.

I've had a few Seikos and never had any misalignment or accuracy problem. Seiko sells huge volumes so mistakes are bound to happen, but I think the watch community overplays how common these QC issues really are. You know how it is, the minority is always the loudest.

I purchased a Presage Cocktail Time The Aviation and shortly after putting it on, I found out the seconds hand was touching the minutes hand around 6 o'clock position, and therefore stopping.

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I've been lucky so far; one of my Seikos has an ever-so-slightly misaligned bezel, but it's acceptable. I can't complain, overall.

Nothing horrendous, but my Samuari’s chapter ring and/or bezel alignment is off by about half a “minute”, and the dial on my Alpinist is ever so slightly askew (literally could only tell by overlaying a crosshair on a picture). My Alpinist is also about -16s per day, still within spec, but a tad disappointing since I’ve had NH35-powered watches that were consistently +2-6spd. My Flightmaster, however, is flawless 😍.

So I haven't ever had any huge issues. This also includes my SMALL ARMY of Seiko movement my micros. If there has been misalignment, it's been on such a micro scale it hasn't mattered.

But as @foghorn said, I don't inspect my watch with a 50x loupe, nor do I expect METAS/COSC accuracy and I have enough that they get rewound and set before wearing.

In fact, I don't even use a timegrapher. If I wanted superb accuracy, I'd use an atomic clock or my Seiko Solars 😂.

For my uses, being able to tell the time within some modicum of accuracy is fine..for planned dets, as a TL, boom time is according to my watch lol. If I'm not lead, boom time is according to when TL says so 😆.

For other timing uses it's relative to what I'm doing. I.E. - running a timed event, march, run, shot drills, etc and tracking how long it has taken me to do it, etc.

And one can always sync before an op or mission. Tho, TBH, the number of times I've heard out loud, the "cool" guy sync your watches is close to zero, afaik.

Plans and timelines are great, but the day everything runs on time will be the day Im getting to senile to remember. And the day everything runs on time, Comms work, AND the Intel is right, well that's when I know I'm dreaming or in the Psych Ward....🫣🤐🤪💩

I have/had 7 Seiko in total. My SARB035 have a misaligned charter ring, and the date wheel is a hair-off on my MM200. I never have any problem with the movements on any Seikos. I think many inaccuracy problems are due to users not winding the watch up before putting it on if it hasn't been used for over 24 hours.

Seiko isn't the only watchmaker that has production issues. I got a Yema Superman a few years ago with more problems than all the watches I got over the year put together.

My Seiko 5 SNKK87 is a little diva. She keeps perfect time while being worn but will run down completely in about 4-5 hours after being taken off the wrist. She has such a pretty face that she gets away with it. And my Seiko 5 SNK375 with its inky black dial and snappy red stripe, thinks it's a gauge out of a 1960s sports car, so it runs about 60-90 seconds fast per day.

My other 10 Seikos, automatic, quartz and solar, none of which cost more than $180, are just fine.