Seiko's $1,150 Datsun 240z Watch Is Neat, But You Can Do Better

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Perhaps my top root of shame is nan truth that I'm a watch guy. What tin I say? I for illustration having a pretty, shiny point connected my wrist that tells nan clip without besides telling maine really galore unread emails I have. Also, dissimilar smartwatches, a existent watch will still activity successful different decade, moreover if you bargain a comparatively inexpensive one. Since I'm besides into cars, you'd deliberation I'd beryllium each complete Seiko's upcoming Datsun 240Z special editions, but man, you tin get truthful galore watches for $1,150, and for that money, I really deliberation you tin do better.

I mean, if each you want is simply a Seiko pinch a Datsun logo connected it, past this mightiness beryllium your champion bet. You could besides prevention $155 and conscionable bargain nan non-Datsun version. It's nan aforesaid watch, but it doesn't person nan Datsun logo connected it. And nan watch itself seems solid. Even pinch nan 4:30 day window, it's nan best-looking Seiko merchandise I've seen successful a agelong time, and nan activity has a 72-hour powerfulness reserve, which means, if you return it disconnected erstwhile you get location connected Friday, it should still beryllium ticking distant travel Monday morning. It besides comes pinch a sapphire crystal and 200 meters of h2o resistance, truthful it'll beautiful overmuch spell anyplace and do anything. The bracelet action moreover looks decent, which you usually don't get from Seiko.

That said, they're calling it a Speedtimer, and yet it isn't a chronograph. Instead, nan soul bezel useful arsenic a countdown timer, which nary 1 is really going to use. Just for illustration nan Alpinist, I besides get nan emotion that soul bezel is going to move astir constantly, meaning you'll astir apt mostly usage nan 2nd crown to realign nan bezel alternatively of really counting clip pinch it. Oh, and it's besides still a Seiko that costs much than $1,000. That's a earnestly competitory value point, pinch much non-Seiko options than I could perchance dream to count. Maybe nan world's biggest Datsun fans will spot nan value, but I conscionable don't. 

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That first watch isn't nan only Datsun 240Z typical version that Seiko plans to merchandise successful September, though. You tin besides get a chronograph type pinch either a mechanical aliases star movement, and while it doesn't person room for nan Datsun logo, astatine slightest this type is simply a chronograph. You astir apt won't usage that usability regularly, but it does springiness you nan action of really timing laps and such, which fits nan Speedtimer sanction and history acold better. And while you tin find a cardinal cheaper quartz chronographs, mechanical chronographs are overmuch little common. 

You do suffer half nan h2o guidance of nan different Speedtimer, and nan powerfulness reserve drops to only astir 45 hours, but if there's a Seiko x Datsun collab worthy buying, it's astir apt nan mechanical chronograph. Seiko has history pinch nan Pogue, and you get an existent in-house mechanical chronograph movement. Except nan value connected this point is an eye-watering $3,200, an full $700 much than what Seiko charges for nan non-Datsun Speedtimer mechanical chronograph. Maybe you for illustration nan achromatic much than nan stainless steel, but do you for illustration it $700 more? I highly uncertainty that. 

Plus, astatine $3,200, you're good into pre-owned Omega Speedmaster territory. The Seiko is astir apt much unsocial and isn't a dork watch for nerds (sorry, Speedmaster fans, but you cognize it's true). And yet, each azygous personification who sees you wearing your shiny caller Seiko Speedtimer is going to inquire you if it's an Omega, and past it'll move into a full point wherever you person to explicate it's really a Seiko, but it's an incredibly bully Seiko and arguably a amended woody than nan Speedmaster, but nary it's not really a Speedmaster copy, and you committedness it's a existent watch. 

But hey, if you're obsessed pinch Datsun and Seiko, present you go. You tin yet harvester your 2 loves (even though it's astir apt champion to fto watches beryllium watches and cars beryllium cars).