Grand Seiko Creates a Monster: Introducing the Godzilla 65th Anniversary Edition
Seiko’s iconic clock tower atop its Wako retail store famously survived the bombing of Tokyo in World War II. However, it could not withstand an assault by Japan’s most famous fictional giant monster, who demolished it during a rampage through the Ginza in the iconic, original Godzilla film in 1954. As it turns out, both Godzilla and Seiko are celebrating anniversaries in 2019: 65 years since the Toho kaiju film that launched Japan’s King of the Monsters into pop culture and 20 years since the invention of the Spring Drive technology that revolutionized watchmaking. The dual milestones come together stylishly in the new Grand Seiko Godzilla 65th Anniversary Limited Edition.
Grand Seiko Godzilla 65th Anniversary Limited Edition The watch, measuring 44.5 mm in its high-intensity titanium case, features a number of references to Japan’s legendary movie monster, albeit more subtly than one might expect given the somewhat nerdy subject matter. Grand Seiko (which spun off as an independent, high-horology brand from the larger Seiko parent brand in 2017) went with a dark red color scheme rather than a more obvious green one: the crimson dial with its radiating waves is designed to echo the look of Godzilla’s fiery red heat-ray breath, and the sharkskin strap, with its applied black and red areas, has been given a rough texture inspired by the monster’s dinosaur hide. Grand Seiko says that the case itself, with its strongly angled shapes, “...
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