Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Seiko Prospex Diver 300m Hi-Beat SLA025
For those of you who have been closely following this series, it?s no secret I have a keen affinity for Seiko. A vintage Seiko 5 happened to be my first mechanical watch, the Grand Seiko 62GS was the second piece I covered writing for WatchTime, the Seiko Marinemaster Professional 1000m was one of the first watches I took an extended field trip to photograph, and it was the Re-creation of the First Grand Seiko that was the most recent of the brand?s releases to be featured in ?Vintage Eye? last September. Like many other collectors, writers, and watch enthusiasts, I see Seiko as historically one of the most important brands to the industry, but also as representing a great value in its modern watches and often representing a fascinating alternative in the Swiss-dominated marketplace.
The brand excelled at this again last year in releasing the Seiko Prospex SLA017, which was a re-creation of the Seiko Ref. 6217, also known as the 62MAS and the brand?s first dive watch (pictured below). This watch was met with both praise and criticism as it made its rounds on blogs and in minds, being hailed for its faithfulness to the original from 1965, but criticized for its relatively high price of $3,400 (which Seiko defended by citing its limited edition of 2,000 pieces and hence its purported collectibility).
That was a hard act to follow, but this year the brand has released the Seiko Prospex Diver 300m Hi-Beat Ref. SLA025 (or the SLA025, for short), which is a re-creation of the 1...
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