Will Grand Seiko ever run out of landscapes to base their dials on?
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Naz
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They already have! It's always a view from their offices. Unless they move the office I suppose we're gonna keep getting lakes and clouds
They already have! It's always a view from their offices. Unless they move the office I suppose we're gonna keep getting lakes and clouds
Exactly! I’m thinking it must end at some point. So what’s next… 🤔
They could have customers send in pictures of their own landscapes, and fashion custom dials for them. I can see mine now: SBGY471, its color inspired by the brownish green crabgrass and its finish by the pearly gaze of the rheumy-eyed wasteoid who mows the lawn whenever he wakes up in time to get to it.
Thank you for including option C. Apparently some people go gaga over these stucco and paper mache effect dials but I think they are horrid modern art.
As if any normal human would say "oh yes, this looks just like the wind swept snow!" instead of "uh, this one looks defective, there is this mottled chaotic mess on the dial" without the primer on how the "art" should be interpreted.
Thank you for including option C. Apparently some people go gaga over these stucco and paper mache effect dials but I think they are horrid modern art.
As if any normal human would say "oh yes, this looks just like the wind swept snow!" instead of "uh, this one looks defective, there is this mottled chaotic mess on the dial" without the primer on how the "art" should be interpreted.
Ohhhhh this poll is so gonna trigger Grand Seiko Fanbois. 😂
Nature is infinite....
FYI, a few years ago GS made it mandatory for the Dial Development Team to attend the meetings for the Interplantery Travel Project. I hear the design team already has renderings all the way out to Saturn Soil Sunset (it sounds better in Japanese) but they're currently blocked at Uranus.
FYI, a few years ago GS made it mandatory for the Dial Development Team to attend the meetings for the Interplantery Travel Project. I hear the design team already has renderings all the way out to Saturn Soil Sunset (it sounds better in Japanese) but they're currently blocked at Uranus.
For that planet they just need to look at GO Sixties or Chopard Alpine Eagle dials for inspiration.
Perhaps Starfish Uranus...
They will just have to get creative. I'm waiting for "Shibuya Station subway fungus" as a dial theme.
Exactly! I’m thinking it must end at some point. So what’s next… 🤔
Micro adjust clasp available as accessory would be fecking excellent. Like IWC just did for their Ingenieur. That would be excellent “next” 😂
In 2050 we'll see the Grand Seiko SBG69420 Spring Drive “Homeless guy's bonfire illuminating a dark alleyway.”
I am personally crossing my fingers that they turn the view from my garden into the pothole-ridden stop street that no one stops at into a textured watch dial. The tar, the dying poppies, the remains of the dead lemon tree, some gravel. It'll be awesome!
Im waiting for the office space mosaic taking in the view of the break room with a coffee pot at the 9oclock and week old box of donuts at the 3.
In all seriousness I love GS and their designs. I think it’s more interesting than the bland stuff we get from a lot of Swiss brands but it is starting to feel quite derivative.
How about a Giant's Causeway Northern Ireland Limited Edition: a charcoal dial with a hexagonal pattern of varying height?
I do hope they won't! 😍 Okay sometimes it feels forced and qawky, everybody knows it serves only sentimental marketing goals, but I kinda like this way of interpretation.
Why, would it be better if they released a new watch and said: this is our new model, SHWDFH135236, buy it you fools! 😂😂
Their next one should be for Landfill or Nuclear fallout
I am in favor of them moving next to an active volcano for a bit......
I mean come on! That would be spectacular!
How about a Giant's Causeway Northern Ireland Limited Edition: a charcoal dial with a hexagonal pattern of varying height?
Now.. you may be on to something!
The lake Suwa in 100 years has a poo brown dial with spare tires 🛞 floating in it .
The lake Suwa in 100 years has a poo brown dial with spare tires 🛞 floating in it .
I think someone did that. 🤔
I prefer the plain dial GS, the kind that shows off those zaratsu finished indicators and case. The crazy dials do nothing for me, less is more.
Even if they did they would just add new perspectives to the existing landscapes used.
“This dial is a view of Mt. Iwate from Mars after becoming an atoll and sinking below the rising sea levels”.
For the record, I love GS and own two of their watches.
I, for one, am holding out hope for a series based on Bashō's Sarumino (猿蓑). Just really lean into the whole seasonal/landscape motif.
Exactly! I’m thinking it must end at some point. So what’s next… 🤔
What’s next you ask? Well young Padawan, I shall reveal the secret…
Next comes the scenery of Mordor and perhaps a commemorative dial on the city of Minas Tirith
How about a Giant's Causeway Northern Ireland Limited Edition: a charcoal dial with a hexagonal pattern of varying height?
That would be interesting
I think someone did that. 🤔
Thats “ Gold” 😂
how many landscapes they find is positively correlated to how many such watches they have sold. So what you are really asking is, are people going to stop buying these watches. I'd say that is probably not going to happen.
how many landscapes they find is positively correlated to how many such watches they have sold. So what you are really asking is, are people going to stop buying these watches. I'd say that is probably not going to happen.
Definitely not questioning the success of past releases and on how the landscape dials have been a huge hit. :) The question is what other dials can GS churn out other than landscapes around their office and what else can they do to bring something different to the table. Maybe exotic dial materials or etc. With the extremely crazy tolerances GS have for their current dials I’m sure they are able to bring amazing new ideas.