GSK Elegance

Grand Seiko Elegance 39.5mm Hi-Beat GMT stainless steel automatic watch with white dial featuring dual time display on a metal bracelet with three-fold clasp with push button release. Caliber# 9S86. Splash resistant. Sapphire crystal. A mechanical GMT showcasing a spectacular dial that interweaves nature and culture. Japan is a place where the natural charms of the seasons are woven into the fabric of everyday life. Taking up this concept, the latest Grand Seiko Hi-Beat GMT dial expresses the beauty that can be achieved by observing the interplay between nature and culture. Consider the lacquered floors one would find in a traditional Japanese home or a Buddhist temple and how they become a prism of the natural world around them. Soft white snow accumulating on the branches of the trees can reflect off the dark floors, causing them to shine as white snow itself. And yet the definition of floorboards remains. The inhabited world reflects nature back to us – a fresh snow cover, or yukigesho – and is captured in the dial of the new SBGJ271. Combined with the calming, stone-like grey of the GMT hand, this model imparts the feeling of a quiet place – a traditional home or a temple – during a Japanese winter.

Grand Seiko Elegance Collection 38.5mm stainless steel manual wound Spring Drive watch with silver dial that represents the snow-covered ice on Lake Suwa, see through case back for easy viewing of power reserve indicator. The steel bracelet has a nine-row construction that ensures a soft, comfortable exact fit and features a 3 fold clasp. Splash resistant. Sapphire crystal. Caliber 9R31 Most winters, Lake Suwa freezes over and, every few years, a long ridge appears in the ice from one side of the lake to the other. Tradition has it that this is the ‘Omiwatari’ or where the gods walk out over the ice. True or not, this legend has inspired the craftsmen and women at the nearby Shinshu Watch Studio to create a dial of exquisite subtlety for this hand-winding Spring Drive timepiece.