In view of the rising GS fever in MWF, God knows why, a few of the senior (as in length of membership,not status) MWF members who are long time GS enthusiasts decided to meet up informally to discuss this new phenomenon..
Another catalyst was the fact that out of the total worldwide production of the recently launched 300 pieces Limited Edition Seiko Prospex Marinemaster Spring Drive 'tuna', a highly sought after model by GS/JDM Seiko enthusiasts around the globe, an astonishing 4 pieces ended up on our MWF members wrists. (To put this into perspective, only 2 were released in Malaysia, 4 in Singapore, 4 in Thailand, 200 in Japan which was all fully sold out, the rest scattered throughout US, Europe, Asia,etc)...Malaysia boleh maaaa.......
At an earlier gathering this year the 4 of us had agreed to order this model the moment it was launched , however due to the very low allocation given to each dealer, no dealer could fulfill our request. Hence each of us had to embark on our own quest to hunt this piece down one by one from every dealer in the region we could locate....
To celebrate our joy and success, the 4 of us decided to get together for a wrist shot of these hard to find Marinemasters tunas. Subsequently, the other GS/Seiko enthusiasts got to hear of it and wanted to join in. A huge thank you to everyone who came to support this informal lunch gathering where we all know each other from the many earlier MWF gtgs. We all had an awesome time so much so that 5 hours seems too short and if not for our committments to take our other halfs for dinner, we might have stayed back even later. One the of our members actually had to leave early in order to catch his flight to Korea. Such is the passion abt horology and watches, the single common denominator that binds all of us together.
Ganbatte...
My apologies for some of the shots being oof.. Too little time and too many watches, too much hurry...
The group watches shot...many of the watches here are Limited Editions and or rare vintages which you won't see by walking in to Seiko or Grand Seiko stores.
Thanks to Natasha for 2 of the creative floral..oooopss I meant watch arrangements
Groupie watch shots of rare vintage Grand Seikos
3 GS SBGE GMTs including a Limited Edition and 2 Limited Edition SBGR081s
4 SBDB008 Limited Edition Marinemaster Spring Drive gold tunas menacing the rare lonely Seiko burger..'the burger's gonna get eaten up'
Burger up and ran away
Individual watch shots
Seiko rare golden burger... yummy
Limited Edition Ananta Naoki Sakai
GS SBGA031 titanium Spring Drive 200m diver
Peter's Limited Edition Seiko 5 purchased from Seiko Museum Tokyo.
Limited Edition titanium/ceramic Seiko Astron
GS SBGE GMTs
SBGW047 Limited Edition
Rare King Seiko vintage
Seiko Military
GS SBGC003
SBGW033 130th Anniversary Limited Edition
Ananta Retrograde
SBGR081 Limited Edition
Limited Edition GS Hi-beat with a beautiful deep green dial
GS SBGE GMT
Marinemaster SBDX
A rare GS vintage Hi-beat, no less
A Limited Edition GS SBGE GMT with gorgeous deep green textured dial work
A rare gold Seiko burger
Seiko Star Wars
The guilty GS/JDM Seiko enthusiasts....just look at the 'lansi' look from most of them... Natasha excluded of coz...
Talking through lunch the whole afternoon in the Japanese restaurant wasn't enough for this hardcore group.. they insisted on continuing at San Francisco coffee for another 2 hours talking abt what else but GS and JDM Seikos..... mad folks
The catalyst of this gathering.. the 4 amigos' Seiko Prospex Marinemaster Spring Drive gold tuna SBDB008... let's see which other watch forum has more members who managed to get this highly sought after Limited Edition of 300 worldwide (200 in Japan, 100 ROW) Malaysia Boleh, MWF lebih boleh.......
True WIS who will not let their watches be exposed to any dangers.....esp acidic stuff
