Introducing the Seiko Presage Style 60’s
Seiko is back with a new product line within their Presage collection that they?ve dubbed the Presage Style60?s. As you?d expect, these new watches take style cues from, well, the 1960s. But more specifically, they reference a historic Seiko reference from the past, the Crown Chronograph, which was first introduced in 1964. If you can remember all the way back to a pre-pandemic 2020, Seiko released a short run of limited editions based on the Crown Chronograph, and now it appears that this style is back in the collection to stay with the Style60?s. The new watches have some subtle changes compared to the trio of LEs released last year, but those small adjustments add up to a significantly different impression with some of these references. If you missed out on the 2020 versions, you have a new opportunity to pick up something vaguely similar (and you can take your time with it, too).Â
One of the charming and kind of strange things about the limited editions from last year is that they paid homage to a chronograph without being a chronograph. The Crown Chronograph was unlike a modern chrono, however, in that it was essentially a simple 60 second stopwatch with a single pusher at 2:00. In other words, it presents as a simple time only watch at a glance, making Seiko?s modern time and date watch here a surprisingly fitting canvas to pay tribute to the original. While it doesn?t have the functionality of the first Crown Chronograph, it?s able to borrow quite a bit of...
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