Seiko Blue Sardine

[davidtth]

lucky to catch one Sardine for lunch just now, so tasty and yummy ! impressive sun burst look on the blue face, shiny and reflective dark blue bezel, yellow gold hand that always good matching color that makes the reading easier, blue matt shroud and polish gold crowd





Limited edition, but unknown how many pieces would be available in market *source from other website it should be 1000 piece for each design only


duo tone on min / hour hand in gold and blue


the only thing i would change on this watch is the black color day/date instead of white

by far this LE blue series made in non-japan model only, cheers!

[bezelnut]

  So fast.

Really nice, congrats and wear in good health.

I agree with you, white on black day/date window will be perfect.

[Enkidu]

Hey, David,

It just gets better and better!!! As between this blue sardine and the SRP455, this one gets my vote!! 

By the way, what is the shroud made of? I hope it's hard plastic!! 

[bezelnut]

Apparently there are four blue sunburst LE variation from Seiko this time.







*Picture borrowed from the internet.

[davidtth]

you were right Enkidu, is hard plastic 

initially wanted to buy the monster, but the monster bezel doesn't seems works well, and i dun really like the crowd on the monster which designed like rasps, and the operation on the screw in-crowd are not as good as expected, so pay more for sardine 

still waiting for the SRP451 to came by

[bwee]

Hi David.. mind pm me the damage and where you got the watch? thanks.

cheers.

[N79KL]

Somehow the z22 strap seems softer and much pliable than the black color ones. Is it my imagination?

I also wish that the date background color should be black. The Monster's bezel is a bit free turning compare to the baby Tuna.

Anyway I'm thrilled to be able to find one today

[davidtth]

Somehow the z22 strap seems softer and much pliable than the black color ones. Is it my imagination?

I also wish that the date background color should be black. The Monster's bezel is a bit free turning compare to the baby Tuna.

Anyway I'm thrilled to be able to find one today

i think the rubber should be same for original black compare to this new blue

i try photoshop at home with the day/date change to black, end up white looks nicer, black is like a losing tooth on all the white teeth :p

not sure if the monster i try out is working well but the bezel seems funny and cant point to 12 accurately 

had try out a SRP451, find it looks "empty" hence may not get another blue LE for now...

[chrisyen]

you were right Enkidu, is hard plastic 

initially wanted to buy the monster, but the monster bezel doesn't seems works well, and i dun really like the crowd on the monster which designed like rasps, and the operation on the screw in-crowd are not as good as expected, so pay more for sardine 

still waiting for the SRP451 to came by

Not ceramic?

[JOS2012]

At a price of ard RM1K, I don't think it will be ceramic...even most GS don't have ceramic elements.

Not ceramic?

I'm the opposite... maybe its the age thing..
Prefer a cleaner neater dial to read better
I love the tuna design but find this watch's dial too cluttered with too many lines of words and numbers. If they reduced the lines to just Seiko on top and only 2 lines below, no minute numbers it would be nice for me..
As such, I'm going for the blue monster..

had try out a SRP451, find it looks "empty" hence may not get another blue LE for now...

[davidtth]

by far only few Tuna Emp especially the blue and white LE are in ceramic shroud, those are easily 8k above

[watchonline]

Very rare in the market nice