Seiko 5 Sports watch
August 20, 2020Best Seiko 5 Sports watch. For over 50 years, Seiko 5 Sports has delivered consistently high levels of reliability, durability, performance and value that have endeared it to lovers of mechanical watches worldwide. Today, with the creation of a new design and a broad new collection, this much loved timepiece is re-born. Welcome to the new Seiko 5 Sports, a collection with all the same values but a fresh new look.
Seiko 5 Sport Automatic Men’s Watch SNZG07
Cream dial enhanced by luminous black hands. Silver-tone stainless steel case with a khaki canvas band. Automatic movement. 100 meters / 330 feet water resistance. Fixed bezel. Scratch Resistant Hardlex crystal. Skeleton caseback. Tang clasp. Pull / Push crown. Case size 42 mm x 12 mm. Band 22 mm x long. Seiko SNZG07 Series 5 Watch.
The new 2019 Seiko 5 Sports collection is composed of 27 watches, however, to bring more clarity, these are organised in 5 sub-collections. Seiko 5 SPORTS “Sport STYLE” It is the basic line and therefore the biggest, with 11 different models. All the dials, inner flanges and bezels are monochrome (except for the indexes and numerals, of course).
Seiko 5 is Seiko’s introductory line of automatic watches. It is also Seiko’s oldest and longest continually used sub-brand. The “5” stands for the watch’s 5 principal attributes: 1. Diaflex (unbreakable mainspring), 2. Diashock (Seiko’s shock resistant design, equivalent to the Swiss “Incabloc”), 3. Automatic winding, 4. day/date indication, and 5.
The accuracy of Seiko 5s with a 7s26 is generally okay but rather unimpressive. The manufacturers specs are +45/-30 seconds a day. In practice, most watches are between +30/-20 seconds a day, but thats not particularly great either. The watches also show significant positional variance,…
I’ve recently purchased a Seiko 5 Sports automatic watch with a 7S36 “23 Jewel” movement. I’ve heard from people that the usual tolerated accuracy range of these watches is around 15sec/day right out of the box, with some as good as 5 or 6sec/day. Well, I tested mine yesterday and it turns out it ran fast by about 22sec over a period of 26 hours.
Originally Answered: What is your favorite variant of Seiko 5 ? The Baby Monster is a wannabe, the pilot variants are too messy to look, and the dressy watches are too plain, so my favorite would be the SNK805, AKA the military watch.