No, you?re not experiencing deja vu. This is in fact the second time in the span of about a week that we?ve brought you news on a new, limited edition Seiko based on their original 6159 diver introduced in 1968. Like last week?s moon shot, this watch (actually, a pair of watches) carry a price tag that will likely only make sense to Seiko completists. If you?re into the Seiko dive aesthetic at all (barrel case, muscular lugs, relatively spartan dial designs) these watches are going to have an immediate pull, but because of their price point and limited nature of each, they might be the kind of watch that you just have to admire from afar. 

In the grand tradition of Seiko bestowing names to watches that are cumbersome, to put it kindly, these watches are officially known as the Seiko Prospex 1968 Diver?s Modern Re-Interpretation. If that sounds familiar, it?s because Seiko has gone back to the 1968 well several times (with good reason). The watches produced in ?68 are genuinely historic, representing breakthroughs in dive watch tech, and a leap forward for the brand that we?re still feeling the ripples of to this day. Ostensibly, these new watches have been produced to celebrate the upcoming 63rd Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), something Seiko has dipped into before (multiple times), so they?re part of the growing ?Ice Diver? sub-collection of Prospex divers. Really, I promise, you?re not experiencing deja vu. 
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