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In summer it is a sea of clouds, in winter it will be a snowdrift on the dial! Sun is the best marketing helper for Grand Seiko.

So it happens to be my fifth month wearing the watch and I decided to write up a long term review for the SBGA445 in my case, or SBGA415 for the EU/US market aka winter aka taisetsu from the seasons collection.

- 62 Gs case for me still remains the most beautiful case of the GS
- the polished indicices are great
- the hands with both polish and brush, look amazing!
- the lovely blue second hand is sexy
- the spring drive 9r65 is amazing, after 2 months of non-stop running it is only 12 seconds fast which is roughly + 0.2 seconds a day. The second hand slow movement still hypnotizes me.
- I love the dial, in the sun or just in bright days it looks amazing, on the other hand on cloudy days or inside some time it feels dull and I miss seing the texture of the dial (this makes me regret not taking the Shunbun - however I don’t know how it would perform in same conditions and I chose the Taisetsu after trying them both, this calms me 🤣)
- The bracelt is nice, it is a pity that there is no micro-adjust but to be fair I managed to get a great fight from first try, and I only felt a slight discomfort on the wrist maybe twice during 5 months, so it does not feel like a big deal. The clasp is great though.

The only thing that started to really bother me in the last days is the size, I have rather small wrists and even if 62gs wears smaller than a standart 40mm the watch started to feeel a bit bulky. Today I tried on my wife’s 35mm prx and it felt freaking perfect on me. The 38mm 62gs would be perfect - but I am not ok with risking buying a high beat unfortunately :/

So now I am on a dillema on keeping the watch or moving to something smaller (having cartier santos medium in mind), or just adding a smaller watch in the rotation (having the tudor bb one blue 36mm in mind).

Grand seiko is a wonderfull brand that changed my perception and view on small details on every watch I see now, and I understand that only a few currently can get to something of a GS level on the details and movement offer.

In the end the watch is great but the wearabilty is the concern and matters a lot.

This one was bought in Japan with tax free for abought 4.2-4.3k new on grey market, and to be honest for this amount of money I don’t think there may be found a cooler watch! (Shunbun doesn’t count 😀) The only watch in this budget which seemed interesting for me is the omega aquaterra black lacquer 38mm which can be found for about 5k new on grey market.

TL:DR Tiasetsu is a great watch, the movement is crazy accurate, the bracelet is nice, the lack of micro adjustment is exagerated, not really for small wrists, go for 38mm 62 gs if you are ok with high beat movement.

So it happens to be my fifth month wearing the watch and I decided to write up a long term review for the SBGA445 in my case, or SBGA415 for the EU/US market aka winter aka taisetsu from the seasons collection.

- 62 Gs case for me still remains the most beautiful case of the GS
- the polished indicices are great
- the hands with both polish and brush, look amazing!
- the lovely blue second hand is sexy
- the spring drive 9r65 is amazing, after 2 months of non-stop running it is only 12 seconds fast which is roughly + 0.2 seconds a day. The second hand slow movement still hypnotizes me.
- I love the dial, in the sun or just in bright days it looks amazing, on the other hand on cloudy days or inside some time it feels dull and I miss seing the texture of the dial (this makes me regret not taking the Shunbun - however I don’t know how it would perform in same conditions and I chose the Taisetsu after trying them both, this calms me 🤣)
- The bracelt is nice, it is a pity that there is no micro-adjust but to be fair I managed to get a great fight from first try, and I only felt a slight discomfort on the wrist maybe twice during 5 months, so it does not feel like a big deal. The clasp is great though.

The only thing that started to really bother me in the last days is the size, I have rather small wrists and even if 62gs wears smaller than a standart 40mm the watch started to feeel a bit bulky. Today I tried on my wife’s 35mm prx and it felt freaking perfect on me. The 38mm 62gs would be perfect - but I am not ok with risking buying a high beat unfortunately :/

So now I am on a dillema on keeping the watch or moving to something smaller (having cartier santos medium in mind), or just adding a smaller watch in the rotation (having the tudor bb one blue 36mm in mind).

Grand seiko is a wonderfull brand that changed my perception and view on small details on every watch I see now, and I understand that only a few currently can get to something of a GS level on the details and movement offer.

In the end the watch is great but the wearabilty is the concern and matters a lot.

This one was bought in Japan with tax free for abought 4.2-4.3k new on grey market, and to be honest for this amount of money I don’t think there may be found a cooler watch! (Shunbun doesn’t count 😀) The only watch in this budget which seemed interesting for me is the omega aquaterra black lacquer 38mm which can be found for about 5k new on grey market.

TL:DR Tiasetsu is a great watch, the movement is crazy accurate, the bracelet is nice, the lack of micro adjustment is exagerated, not really for small wrists, go for 38mm 62 gs if you are ok with high beat movement.