Grand Seiko Spring Drive 'Godzilla' 65th Anniversary Edition

This is Grand Seiko like you’ve never seen it before.

Big, bold, and colorful, it still touts its Japanese roots, but not in the way you’d think: Gone are the slimmed-down proportions of many other GS models, as is the steel housing. This is a monster of a watch — and that’s sort of the point, given its name.

The SBGA405 ‘Godzilla’ 65th Anniversary Edition from circa 2019 is indeed a tribute to the screen debut of the legendary, radioactive monster. Housed in a highly faceted 44.5mm titanium case with ‘holey’ lugs, a sapphire crystal, a signed crown, and a fixed bezel, it features a glorious luminous sunburst red dial with applied indices, a ‘monster’ handset, a date, and a power reserve indicator at 7:30.

Powered by the Grand Seiko Spring Drive Calibre 9R15 — which is visible via a sapphire exhibition caseback — it comes paired to a signed red and black leather strap with a titanium, double-push button deployant clasp. In excellent condition, it also includes its factory goodies.

This is not a Grand Seiko for the faint of heart — and that’s why we absolutely love it.

The Grand Seiko was created by Taro Tanaka, a young designer whom Seiko had hired right out of school. Inspired by the way Swiss watches “sparkled brilliantly,” Tanaka set out to design a watch with sharp edges, brushed surfaces, and a mirror finish that would rival anything created by the Swiss. In 1960, the first Grand Seiko—Reference 3180—debuted.

Other models of Grand Seiko would follow, coupling those elegant “sparkling” cases with high-grade (often hi-beat) manually-wound or automatic movements. When compared to the no-nonsense tool watches like the 6309 line of divers, the Grand Seiko was worlds away—refined, elegant, and cosmopolitan. Seiko intended the watch to be an answer to dress watches crafted by the Swiss, and at that it certainly did succeed.

Well-regarded in its home country, the Grand Seiko reached a global audience in 2010—and has captivated consumers ever since.

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