You Won't Regret Buying This Watch | Seiko 5 Field GMT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Seiko follows up the Seiko 5 sports diver style GMT from last year with a field version of the same recipe. It's very good, but is it better than last year's SSK001 ?
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I got mine about two weeks ago ( Stainless steel, black dial). I love this watch. The bracelet is surprisingly good. I did replace the clasp for a premium one. I have the same complaints as the review, but I got it for just over 300.00. For what I paid, I am very happy with it. It's a looker.👍🏼
Love this field dial…I have the SRPG39 and absolutely love it! The fourth hand knocks this design out of the park! And killer GMT hand, right?!
Oh man, I'm obsessed with this watch in the stainless steel version. This will be my first Seiko. I'm just waiting for the hype and price to drop. I can even forgive Seiko for not adding sapphire in this price range. It's just such a great watch to look at it.
too bad the l2l is so long
If the hour markers were lume blocks it’d be a complete game changer! We need more watches with lume blocks
I really want the white dial they released in Japan!
Liked how you built up the narrative to that plug for the zero-pass. 😉
This Field GMT needs a nickname. It's so good. The SKX GMT is great looking, but inherited all the things about the SKX that kept me from loving it both in photos and on my wrist all day. Field MGT prices are already dropping towards $300 online, and in that range it's a killer choice. I think I'm going to be recommending this to a lot of people
It does, the black one is the deception and the steel is deploy. Doesn't feel like a proper nickname when seiko chose it. Nicknames are given, not set my manufacturer.
From the media photos I preferred this black pvd version, but after seeing them in my AD, I definitely prefer the steel version on the bracelet. Anyway it's a great watch for the money. One of those situations where Seiko still delivers great value for money.
I can’t decide which one to buy! I’d probably get that blacked out version as well, and put it on a black silicone strap. I recently got the newer silver with gold bezel two tone dive gmt version, and can’t take it off. It looks classy as heck on the wrist somehow. It’s my first visibly two tone watch and it just works. I have a titanium grand seiko with a black dial and gold hands and markers, and thought it looks really nice, so I’d give the two tone diver gmt a try, and it’s grabbed me. I never dreamed I’d like it as much as I do, and it would look as nice as it does in person. Great video!
Had the SSK023 version for a few weeks now, replaced the bracelet for black leather, big improvement, have ordered theSSK 027 / SBSC009 version white dial from Japan. Will be fitting saphire crystal to both.
Thanks Max for the video. An alternative to this field watch GMT is the Samgin Instruments Overlord. No date, though essentially the same at 40mm. Somewhat a challenge to get, though great value for money and 200m wr.⌚👍🌎
This one looks good from here (and the stainless version, even better to my eyes), but I'm good with the SSK 003 I bought last May, and on my (slightly) larger 7" wrist, doesn't live all-too-large. I also agree your Zero-Pass strap is a must-have in general, but for this watch in particular.
I bought the full SS version, got it for around $260USD from an AD here in Australia. Such a cool watch! Only thing I might change is popping a Namoki slim display case back to slim it down
For it's size I wish they had made the lug to lug shorter because I love the dial and how they blacked out the stem on the GMT hand.
Also, if we're talking about true NATO strap designs, they typically employ one piece buckles.
The "premium" buckles on more expensive signature NATOs are often larger and use spring bars.
Yeah I was surprised that in depth and lug to lug, this watch is bigger than the diver GMT
Agree, to long l2l, i miss the old days when almost all watches were 40 mm l2l
This is a timely video for me as I have the find a new field watch bug 😅 Also given that I do not yet have a GMT, this would tick a few boxes.
On a totally unrelated note, it was pretty neat seeing your smiling face on the 2024 Seattle Boat Show event page! As if watches aren’t enough of a hazard to the bank account, I seem to have caught a reinvigorated gotta get a boat bug as well 😂
First of all, I love Watch Crunch’s app. The community has been super solid. I think the Seiko Field is fantastic. Definitely looking to pick one up this year.
I wanted to pick up a zero pass nato but your website says it doesn’t work with fixed spring bars. What’s the reason for that? I wanted one for my marathon navigator x Long Island collaboration.
Do you offer discounts on multiple orders?
Ha I have the same 5kx and the field one the bracelet. I dig both of the watches and the bracelet on the field has surprisingly thicker links and feels more premium then most of Seikos bracelets that I’ve seen under the $500 mark. Either way both are staying in my collection. The field i ordered from Japan and the owner of the shop included a nice note and even a cool origami. I def loved the extra step they took.
Are you from Seattle? I think I may have seen you at the cfb championship game at a bar near the space needle
I've seen watches with screw down crown fill up with water more often than watch without it because the owner didn't screw down the crown tight enough or didn't know or got lazy about the screw down feature. Love your channel.
One automobile journalist once wrote : a well tuned suspension is better than a tunable one.
Unless you are a hard core scuba diver, a push pull crown with good gaskets is better than a screw down one with an average quality threading in the case.
Good little watch and even better on the zero pass. I don't know why seiko didn't release the white dial version worldwide though.?
I snorkel with my seiko 5 thats the same case and crown as the diver GMT. No issues. What are yall doing that would make the crown pull under water?
I love this watch. I have the steel version on a black leather strap with white stitching. It is my new everyday watch. Unfortunately, after a month I already have a little scratch in the Crystal. It's such a shame that Seiko didn't use a sapphire crystal. The only negative point for me. Such a great watch.
I missed the white dial at local shop when I read negative comments about it and paid a higher price due to import tax.You like it just buy it.The price are high now on the white dial.
Nice review, I’m with you the field GMT would be my choice between these 2. At $400 the question now becomes do you pickup a very good used GMT at around the same price? 😊
Yeah we are at the tail end of the GMT craze I feel like, a lot of good ones out there on the secondary market!
Already available here in Australia as low as $262 USD!
I was toward the SSK003 at first, but the moment I put the SSK2023(steel and metel 5 link bracelet) on wrist, I know this is the one. I is the right size for a GMT. The dial is a little bit on the busy side for some people, though, but I like the way it is.
PS: I also tried the GMT Alpinist white dial, which is also really nice! But the price is a little unattainable for me now......
Missed opportunity to name this BUY THIS WATCH (Thank me later PT2), because honestly both this family of Seiko 5 gmt's and the original GMT release from Seiko are gorgeous
LoL thought about it 😂
Seiko 5 without the day. I do have a similar model without the gmt srpg41. Generally the watch look nice and easy to wear for everyday
Great review as always. I actually like the white dial variant more.
That's the jdm limited one?
It is! However, shipping to the UK is so expensive, and all the Seiko 5s sold in Europe are not made in Japan! Another trip soon I feel coming on!@@WatchCrunchOfficial
@@alwayspooh1588 agreed, I love the white one. They're available to import for Japan for under $320, plus around $30 shipping to the USA - not a bad deal. Idk how VAT comes into it when importing to UK, probably an extra 20%?
its a great looking watch butnfor the price i cant justify the crystal and qc, though its quickly going for under retail
Is it possible to change the bracelet?
According to Jody's newest video (Just One More Watch) these are already heavily discontinued for the PVD case iteration.
that makes sense, IMO the PVD one is by far the least favorite of the 3
These have already dropped pricing here in Australia. Just last week I could’ve picked one up for $399 AUD! That’s $262 USD! Has to be a reason for the dramatic drop so quickly after launch Max. 🤔
Very interesting… and well done you on the ‘single pass’ strap. Great idea 👏
Just downloaded the app (didn’t know there was one?!). Another superb video. Thank you.
I just can't with the 4pm crown, damn it
The buckle of NATO straps isn’t a “spring bar”, it’s solid. And with the prong of the buckle, and the surrounding strap material, the buckle is stronger and less likely to fail than a spring bar, which has more direct pressure applied to it at all times, given the angle of wear.
So, you can try to *justify* your strap, but it’s still more likely to fail than a NATO…..
If I could only buy one Seiko watch, which model is recommended?
This video is literally for me right now!
Check out thé polar japanese version, a KILLER....gorgeous...but japan only... Frédéric Paris France.
I actually broke the buckle on a NATO once while sailing. The watch stayed on my wrist because of the extra length bit that you tuck back under the keepers. So there's that.
Do you think they could make a version of this in the 36mm case?
I doubt it. Would be way too tall for a 36mm watch.
@@WatchCrunchOfficial That's unfortunate. I have really tiny wrists, and anything above 38mm is too big for me :(
@@francescoschmitt2000 Absolutely true... don't go above 38 because you will end up selling that watch and loose time and money. 38 is the max... and also 10...11mm thick the most.
Buy a Christopher Ward 36 with the bracelet like I did. You will spend more I know... but It fits way better than this.
There is a 36mm normal version without gmt of this, but it's still thick... try that one.
I have the SSK003 beautiful piece. I know field watches' history is to be in a smaller dial, but I would really like to have a field watch in a 42mm. On my wrist anything smaller looks (at least to me) like a woman's watch.
@@IDKline 7.5"
I’m having trouble finding a sapphire crystal replacement for my ssk025 field gmt. Can anyone help?
“Promise not to be an ass” 😂. Another great video!
Hehe, cheers my friend 🤙
Max
dont lie to me, you choice to review the blacked out version so you can use this to talk about your zero pass straps! 😂
Not hating, I own two zero pass straps and love them!
Max.. you also said to buy the SSK and to thank you later. It was okay, the GMT hand was misaligned and it's a thick watch. Sold it a few months later. This watch? Super busy dial. Thanks, but no thanks.
as a saiko owner of the sea urchin japan model that it still works really well i do not care how cool the new ones look if seiko does not get rid off the hardlex and the same movement it has for all this years they wont win back or make new costumers having to go in prospex line up for 1000 bucks just to get a saphire is ridicolus thats why the numbers dont lie people chose ALL THE OTHER MICROBRANDS IN THE SUB 500 CATEGORY FOR A REASON
What's the title of song in the intro? Cannot shazam it, because of infromation being spoken :P
And no info in details of video, unfortunately.
@@IDKline still, there is a title of this song, right?
@WatchCrunch
If I didn’t have my grail GMT, I’d probably go for the dive version
I feel like 5KX GMT is a "true" SKX, in spirit. If SKX is Seiko's Submariner, then 5KX is Seiko's GMT Master, which is really a Submariner with an extra hand, and less water resistance. In another word, it's the best option for those who want a "modern SKX"
Do a video where you build a good $10k perfect watch collection
The steel version looks kinda like the Seestern S436... which uses the Seiko NH34 movement 🙄
I don’t necessarily agree with you about 5kx diver, or really diver style watch. It was downgraded in the sense that it has less water resistance, a push pull crown, still no sapphire (for better or worse but that’s really what most enthusiasts want, and is now common at that price point), no longer iso, stamped clasp, etc. Atheistically I do like the new 5kx better, but from an enthusiast spec focused point of view, I think it was a step in the wrong direction……all that said, the watch in your review looks awesome.
Well it’s 510$ where I live, soo wait for discount or second hand 😇
Could this be the best value watch of the year?
Did you just call me a bigger boy? 😂😂😂
Lol, you all really live by the rule of the sizes for the wrist. If i was to follow this rule I couldnt wear anything because my wrists are small. Good thing i dont care. I only have one life to live and it screwed up on my wrist size. Im going to be wearing whatever i want.
I love the look of this, however the cheap Seiko strap would need to go, and the bracelet upgraded.
As usual, Seiko misses the mark. No screw-down crown, and that top-hat-looking harlex, instead of sapphire, is going to be an issue. Perfect modding platform though.
As a Flyer GMT hater, I'd call Caller GMT as GMT with a quick set date😅
Pretty accurate based on the engineering of them.
Call it what it actually is: a ‘passenger gmt.’
It’s neither a ‘true’ or ‘flyer’ gmt, as it only first appeared in the 1980’s.
Most people who buy gmt watches will never use them as gmt watches.
They do love the fidget spinner jumping hour hand though.
This Seiko has a fixed bezel. It’s disappointing, but understandable. It’s more a dual-timer than anything else, which is at least somewhat useful for people who do not use gmts as gmts.
Sir is Citizen tsuyosa a good wstch for its asking price , IK i am asking irrelevant question in this video , but please guide 😊
I'd take this over the citizen 8 days a week
@@WatchCrunchOfficial What??? Dude, it's totally a different watch. It has integrated bracelet with sapphire crystal and 11,5mm thickness. It's the same price as this.
If you want a dress watch for work than it's better than this thick plastic nylon field.
I had a Zelos GMT with a bezel that had no contrast in the numbers on the bezel. It was super frustrating - lovely watch (including meteorite dial). But I just COULD NOT read the numbers on the bezel in most conditions - therefore negating the GMT benefit. Sold it. And for that reason, I wouldn’t but this good looking but impractical watch.
The "5KX" never felt a true successor to the SKX, but the GMT version does make sense despite the smaller water resistance. This field GMT is also a great development. It's very good that Seiko kept the design language on the hands as it did with the Alpinist GMT, not merely picking a triangle with a stick for both. That said, i believe that this 24-hour bezel should be exact like that but rotating.
This watch is screaming for a black Artem sailcloth strap - murdered out!
Stainless model looks waaaay better.
Lightning in a bottle, indeed
Oh no, my mind is blown 🤯 never thought about the buckle spring bar 😂although it’s way more difficult fault to occur there than the lug spring bars. Some more cynical people will say “oh you definitely picked up this model to advertise your strap right?”, god I hate those people 😊
The GMT Diver all day long. What was Seiko thinking with this black GMT Field watch?! 24 Hours markers not readable, no lume on the numerals, no lume marking for orientation, it sits so high with the strap, missalgnement... Sorry, not for me.... I look for a microbrand when I want a GMT field watch.
No shade but I find it amusing that you’re worried about the crown popping open more than a spring bar. 😂
Yeah… I’d lean Nodus on this…
Missed a trick not lumping the numbers
I think I will regret buying this watch actually.
Casual. The last word of your name says it all
@@leonardo3399 nope.
Despite the incredible value proposition I just can’t get over the fact it would lose 20-30 seconds a day
does it matter tho? do you need that much accuracy?
For a vintage watch that I might wear once a week, no. But for a daily driver like this, I’d get frustrated having to adjust it every couple of days.
Cough* That's not a "Diver"
As beautiful and value as all these seiko watches are, I just can't seem to ever buy/wear one just because they're simply never accurate enough. I think a watch fan I must appreciate and honour the accuracy of movements and it's simply impossible to get movements that are accurate enough at these price ranges. Shame.
Check your phone bro for time accuracy....hehe
20-30 seconds/ day!
Hahaha, yeeeesss, the hands being silver is not going work haha
i think there's too much going on aesthetically
"invented"
Nothing stands out about the ss025. Looks like a Timex offering. In fact I'd rather have the Northern Expedition.
I tried it on recently. It really felt cheap. I can't stand a poor quality watch on my wrist.
You will regret paying RRP for this. Its a good watch at $200. Thats it, no more.
"invented"😂😂😂😂
The US patent office agrees 😉
Give up on the zero pass
You might call it a super clone, but the truth is, it's nowhere near on par with a gussl replica watch.
the black on black version is soooo ugly compared to the White dial , its kind of ridiculous . no wonder the Stealth dial is already on sale every compared to the other 2 models .....
Not true (traveller) GMT, just "office" GMT.
Yess no saphire but the seikos are so sexy and the originals…. Hardlex are strong. They crystals are not bad. And looks cleaner than the cheap saphire from pagani and so ob
Shut up
It’s not a real GMT so…..
Crazy how a $400 price tag is considered expensive for a seiko. Compared to all the overpriced timepieces out there. Seiko fanboys kill me with this. You worship the brand but will cry about pricing? If you truly are a fan then stop under valuing the brand by complaining about the price. A true GMT or Diver from a very renowned brand is great.
It's a bit of joke. The hands look cheap Cheap mineral crystal. The strap is awful. The display back is not needed on a plain industrial movement. San Martin do it far better
You didn't invent shit but a regular ass strap with extra steps. You invented fashion nato.
looks like a Pilot - Diver wannabe
Diver one is better, that field gmt is a total mess up.
Spec for spec, Seiko's are a giant ripoff.
watch collecting is about more than just specs
Ripoff of what?
@@ajmarion
Exactly , not too unlike selecting your partner, or picking out the car you want to own, etc.
It’s not like comparing insurance policy quotes .
Anyone defending hardlex, find another hobby.
If i can by that exact same movement in a pagani for $140 aud there's absolutely no good reason to f'ing pay $540 for shitbox seiko. Let me guess it doesn't even have sapphire crystal. Absolute rubbish.
Not having sapphire is pathetic
Definitely make a good argument. I think it’s totally fair if you want to have a watch collection that isn’t worth excessive amounts but you can have a good variety of watches for various occasions.
I would consider it as a alternative, but that Pagani logo design is hideous!
Imagine buying a pagani 😅 there’s always these sheeps crying about the “build quality”, the “value for money”,… Let’s be completely honest here, you’re never buying pagani because it’s a pagani, you’re buying the best fake, the closest thing to your dream watch that you could afford with your ant sized budget AND you have to come up with something to justify your purchase. What a joke.
No one forces you to buy it instead of a cheap Chinese knock off brand with dubious quality. Also crying about prices of watches in the budget class is atleast free.
Better regret not buying than buying and regret it…..
sadly, i regret buying this watch. its so boring and the bezel doesn't rotate also...even the black dial doesn't stand out at all. loss of 500 dollars🥲🥲