Grand Seikoโ€™s Latest โ€˜Eleganceโ€™ Watches Are A Playful Nod To The Holiday Season
โ€” 16 November 2022

Grand Seikoโ€™s Latest โ€˜Eleganceโ€™ Watches Are A Playful Nod To The Holiday Season

โ€” 16 November 2022
Randy Lai
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Randy Lai

Just in time for a month-long sojourn full of fiery summer days and Champagne-fueled nights, Grand Seiko has unveiled the latest additions to its โ€˜Eleganceโ€™ collection: aptly named for its focus on moderately sized, mostly complication-free dress watches.

Nicknamed the Boshลซ and Bantล, these time-only mechanicals โ€“ sitting pretty at a case size of 37.3mm โ€“ are yet another in the canon of designs inspired by GSโ€™ ongoing fixation with sekki (โ€˜seasonsโ€™).

To be sure, you could absolutely intuit that these watches channel the beauty of natural Japanese landscapes โ€“ during high autumn and early spring respectively โ€“ but really, the leitmotifs which come to mind when I look at these are โ€˜a red-hot Aussie summerโ€™ and โ€˜glass of bubblesโ€™. Art โ€“ meet subjectivity, I guess.

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Pictured (left to right): The new Grand Seiko โ€˜Eleganceโ€™ SBGW287 and SBGW281, each priced at $7,150.

Honing in a little more on the craft thatโ€™s used to make these releases, each features a finely textured dial requiring a mixture of chemical processes and high-precision machining in order to create โ€“ not unlike Grand Seikoโ€™s signature โ€˜Iwateโ€™ dials.

In red, the effect is of a sandy/rock-like surface that is covered in vibrant red dust; while the โ€˜Champagneโ€™ treatment lives up admirably to its name โ€“ channeling the swirling, tightly beaded appearance of a glass of grapey fizz. It goes without saying then that these would be great ways to accessorize your summer fit โ€“ perhaps not on croc skin leather, though.

But beyond the height of the Australian summer, itโ€™s a safe bet that these Elegance releases will prove to be worthy daily companions โ€“ powered by Grand Seikoโ€™s refined, highly iterative Calibre 9S64. This manually wound movement, which is outfitted with a number of proprietary Seiko technologies, gives the Boshลซ and Bantล an accuracy rate of +10/-1 seconds per day โ€“ expressed in the calm, balletic sweep of the seconds hand across each respective dial.

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Randy Lai
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Following 6 years in the trenches covering consumer luxury across East Asia, Randy joins Boss Hunting as the team's Commercial Editor. His work has been featured in A Collected Man, M.J. Bale, Soho Home, and the BurdaLuxury portfolio of lifestyle media titles. An ardent watch enthusiast, boozehound and sometimes-menswear dork, drop Randy a line at [email protected].

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