Reviews

With its impressive world time functions, the SNJ005 is the Sportura for the world traveler. It stands out among its three brothers because it is the only Sportura that is digital as well as analog. It manages to retain its family resemblance, however, thanks to the inverted LCD (white on black rather than black on white) which blends in almost perfectly with the rest of the face and gives it the same jet-black dial as the other Sporturas. And like the rest of the line, the SNJ005 is all sta..

I was in New York for a conference last week, and I ran into a girl wearing a big, dorky (in a cool way), very intriguing watch which turned out to be a Seiko AirPro. I'd never seen one before, and when she told me she'd bought it in Japan, my first thought was that it was a GSM mobile phone watch that had somehow slipped passed my Japanese wrist tech nology radar. But instead of being a speaker or a microphone, the big contraption below the face is actually a pump which can be used to infl..

The Seiko Solar Ignition Diver Watch isn't atomic like the Seiko Ignition Takuma Sato, but it is a solar Ignition, and it is most definitely a beautiful watch. Features of the Seiko Solar Ignition Diver Watch include: Titanium case and bracelet. Seiko's own "Hardlex" crystal (used in many of Seiko's divers because it is especially hard). Solar-powered with a 6-month reserve and overcharge prevention. Quartz accuracy of ± 20 seconds per month. Double locking clasp with "one-pus..

The Seiko Ignition Takuma Sato is an unusual watch in several respects. First, Seiko is not very well known for their solar watches. Kinetic, Spring Drive, and even automatic, yes, but you don't find a lot of solar powered Seikos out there. And you find even fewer atomic Seikos. Seiko is well known for their extremely accurate quartz movements which almost make atomic functionality unnecessary. However for the Takuma Sato, I guess "almost" wasn't good enough. Seiko Ignition Takuma Sato Tak..

Seiko continues to build amazing watches on top of their innovative new Spring Drive system. One of the latest is the Seiko Marinemaster GMT. I almost posted nothing but a picture of this watch because I think the mere sight of it says it all: it is big, beautiful, durable, and simultaneously both modern and classic. I have an old Seiko titanium Kinetic Scubamaster which is one of my favorite watches in the world, and one of the things I really like about this family of watches is the amo..