1968 Diver’s Watch Re-interpretation GMT. Designed for those who treat life as the ultimate adventure, the Seiko Prospex line meets every challenge with technological excellence and style. Part of a rich legacy of innovation in high-intensity timekeeping, Prospex continues to celebrate a long history of sports watch expertise with re-creations and re-interpretations of landmark achievements. This extraordinary timepiece, re-interpreting Seiko’s landmark 1968 diver’s watch, showcases the brand’s first mechanical GMT movement in a diver’s watch, the new caliber 6R54. Providing a power reserve of approximately 72 hours, the longest of any Seiko mechanical watch, this 24-jewel automatic GMT movement beats at a frequency of 21,600 vibrations per hour and offers manual winding capability. The GMT hand can be set independently in one-hour increments, without interrupting the time-of-day hands, to provide a second time zone reading at a glance. Framed by a Made-in-Japan black ceramic uni-directional rotating elapsed timing bezel with knurled edge for enhanced operability, the black dial features a date calendar, gold GMT hand, and large LumiBrite markers and hands for enhanced legibility. Crafted of stainless steel with super-hard coating, this superbly functional timepiece includes an anti-reflective sapphire crystal, screwdown crown and caseback, new three-link, slim profile bracelet, and a tri-fold push button release clasp with secure lock and extender, and follows ISO standards for scuba diving to depths of up to 200 meters. 200m Water Resistant
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1968 Diver’s Watch Re-interpretation GMT
Prospex Automatic Diver
Automatic GMT with manual winding capability
Black ceramic uni-directional rotating elapsed timing bezel
Black dial
Date calendar
Gold GMT hand
LumiBrite hands and markers
Screwdown crown and caseback
Tri-fold push button release clasp with secure lock and extender
TECHNICAL DATA
CASE DIMENSIONS:
Thickness:
Diameter:
Length:
12.9mm
42.0mm
48.6mm
MOVEMENT:
Caliber 6R54
21,600 vibrations per hour
24 jewels
Power reserve: approximately 72 hours
CASE:
Stainless steel case with super-hard coating
CRYSTAL MATERIAL:
Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on the inner surface
WATER RESISTANCE:
200 meters (660 feet), follows ISO standards and is suitable for scuba diving
SEIKO PROSPEX 1968 Diver’s Modern Re-interpretation GMT
Ever since its first diver’s watch in 1965, Seiko has developed new technologies, features and designs that have made the Seiko Prospex diver’s watch collection a favorite among professional and recreational divers the world over. Through more than a half-century of innovation, Seiko has continuously pushed back the boundaries of where sports watches, and diver’s watches in particular, can go and how they can be used. Continuous enhancements over the decades in safety, reliability, legibility, and ease of use have made Seiko a leader in diver’s watches.
Seiko is introducing a new movement in the long-trusted 6R family that has a GMT function and a power reserve extended to a full 72 hours. Caliber 6R54 is presented in three new Prospex creations that are all modern re-interpretations of a Seiko classic from 1968 and are designed for diving with 200-meter water resistance.
1968
1968 Diver’s Watch
2023
1968 Diver’s Modern Re-interpretation GMT
DESIGN
From the first Grand Seiko in 1960 to the automatic chronograph in 1969, the sixties was a decade of significant advances in technical and design development that laid the foundation for Seiko’s future success in the prestige watch arena. Alongside Grand Seiko, one other series, in particular, demonstrated the company’s ability to create mechanical watches with high accuracy. It was called King Seiko, and, in addition to its precision, it offered a powerful yet graceful design that symbolized the high quality of its construction.
While the watch’s design reflects its heritage, every aspect of this new creation is fully up to date in specification and execution. The case design is inherited from the 1968 original, and the case sides are mirror finished. The edge of the unidirectionally rotating bezel offers easy control.
The watch has a stainless steel case with super-hard coating and appears on a new three-link stainless steel bracelet that has a slim profile that allows it to sit securely and comfortably on the wrist.
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COLOR VARIATION
The classically styled green and black creations.
Green Dial
SPB381
Black Dial
SPB383
Seiko Watchmaking 110th Anniversary SEIKO PROSPEX Save the Ocean Limited Edition
There is also a limited-edition watch that celebrates the 110th anniversary of Seiko’s, and Japan’s, first wristwatch. Distinguished by an intricately textured ice-blue dial, this watch captures the power of the polar glaciers that shape the landscapes and seascapes of the Arctic and Antarctic, where Seiko’s reputation for reliable and durable watches was forged in the 1960s and ‘70s when adventurers and researchers wore them on expeditions to the North and South Poles.
The limited edition shares the same case and bracelet with the other two models, but it comes with an additional strap made entirely of recycled plastic bottles. It was created using a traditional Japanese braiding technique called Seichu.
