The principle of the Kinetic watch is dubious. It seems thet the "capcell* deteriorates such that the life of the watch is certainly no better than a high quality Lithium powered or even the odd silver oxide powered quartz movement. The service cost quoted by Seiko and even that more competitively quoted by an independent totally wipes out any advantage of using a kinetic setup in the first place. I am sure a conventional battery based quartz watch is more reliable, durable and certainly more economical. There iseems to be no advantage in paying extra for a kinetic ...  Read the complete review

This opinion is about the Seiko Kinetic series and will primarily focus on the Auto Relay which I have one of. I previously had a TAG Heuer 4000 series and will make comparisons with that. I asked Dooyoo for a separate product category for that but they told me to submit this opinion here, so here it goes… >>About The Range The Kinetic Auto relay range consists of a few watch styles, it can mainly be summarised as the Kinetic Auto Relay 100 and the Kinetic Auto Relay 200. I have a Kinetic Auto Relay 200. In the UK these watches retail from between £295 to £395 (maybe £330 in the sales), a fair amount to pay for a Japanese watch don’t you ...  Read the complete review

As a watch collector and enthusiast, I've written a couple of watch reviews while I've been here, and read hundreds more! While most are positive, often glowing in fact, I've noticed that a few are a little down on the old Seiko brand. Seiko watch company have been around forever and a day. They were established in Japan in 1881, a fact I discovered after buying a limited edition dive watch on a run of 1881 pieces. I enquired why such a ridiculously random number for a LTD edition, and was sent away feeling suitably stupid. The name Seikosha was adopted as a name in the 1920's, translating as House Of Exquisite Workmanship (wikipedia), and soon ...  Read the complete review

As a company Seiko seem to live in middle ground between your cheap but fairly good watches e.g. Sekonda and your big brand name expensive watches e.g. Tag Heuer. What I mean by this is that when you wear a Seiko nobody is going to think you are a cheapskate but likewise you aren't going to walk round like a charlie big potatos with some flashy named watch on your wrist. Typically prices range from £100 to £400 and whilst my father must have owned 5 different Seiko watches in the last 30 years I have owned just the one, which is the one I will review here... I have owned the Seiko 7N42-6090 for around ten years. Well actually I owned one ten years ...  Read the complete review

I received my Seiko chronograph watch as a present for my 20th birthday from my girlfriend (very generous, particularly as we had only been together 4 1/2 months at the time!). She had decided ages before that she wanted to get me a watch for my birthday so that 'I could think of her every time I checked the time'. Although it seemed like a very grand gesture at the time, particularly as we are both students, I reluctantly agreed although only on the condition that she didn't go crazy! We spent many a weekend in town looking in every jewellers window, although we could never find quite what we were looking for within her £200 budget. Id always admired Seiko ...  Read the complete review