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Caliber 9R65 Spring Drive is currently the most standard of Grand Seiko’s 9R Spring Drive movements. Since the Spring Drive’s advent in 1999, the power reserves on these have steadily improved. Today, the piece I’m reviewing has a 72-hour power reserve that automatically winds with the barest of wrist movement. The Grand Seiko Spring Drive is a quartz watch. Wait. No. Okay. It’s a battery-operated watch. No again. It’s somewhat of a hybrid. No owner of a Grand Seiko Spring Drive will ever change batteries. There are none. The “Blue Snowflake” is powered by the 9R65 – the same calibre found in the original “Snowflake”. It’s a long-lived, highly practical movement that tells the time, while also having the date and power reserve.

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Despite the name, summer snowflake bulbs ( Leucojum aestivum) bloom in mid to late spring in most areas, just a couple of weeks after the spring snowflakes ( Leucojum vernum). Both bulbs have grass-like foliage and dainty, fragrant drooping bells. They look almost exactly like snowdrops ( Galanthus nivalis), which bloom a couple of weeks before spring snowflakes. You can tell the difference between the two flowers by the fact that snowflakes have a green dot at the tip of each of its six petals, while snowdrops have dots on only three of its petals. Nothing could be easier than snowflake plant care. Grand Seiko maintains that no machine can match the skill of its craftspeople; their skill gives Spring Drive its extreme precision. After spending some quality time with it, I agree. Christmas Hexagon Symbol Snowflake, Christmas hexagonal snowflakes, white, winter, snowflakes png 600x600px 350.08KB Movement: Seiko Spring Drive Caliber 9R65, automatic winding, power reserve 72 hours, 32,768 vph frequency The date window, on the other hand, is a less important detail that captures the thought that goes into the design, as well as the quality of manufacturing. It bevelled edges with contrasting surfaces – polished on the outer edge and sandblasted on the inner edge.

The integrated circuit applies a magnetic brake when the glide wheel spins too fast. This regulates movement of the hands with a precision not seen before in mechanical watches.

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The four lugs are finished with the Zaratsu technique, which relies on a lapping machine that produces an exceptionally flat polished surface with minimal distortion. Based on machines once produced by Swiss machine-tool maker Gebrüder Sallaz, the machine is proprietary to Seiko, though similar equipment is produced by Japanese specialist Hayashi Seki and used by other Japanese watch brands. As a result, the surfaces of the lugs are subtly different from the other surfaces – compare the lugs to the flat bezel for instance – but the difference is only discernible up close. The 9R65 Snowflake Christmas file formats, snowflakes, winter, image File Formats, branch png 1600x1286px 813.8KB Still, I think they could have put the power reserve indication elsewhere or abandoned it entirely rather than clutter the beautiful dial. Repositioning or removing such an element of nonessential information makes sense to me given what I learned about the Spring Drive: The two surface finishes are not merely for aesthetics; the matte inner edge is to avoid reflections around the date numeral, while the polished outer edge serves to highlight the window and make the date display stand out.

For me, the Snowflake is a work of art created by some of the industry’s finest artisans. The few problems I found are easily remedied, and I can live with those that aren’t. After enjoying it for a while, I’m beginning to think this watch deserves a place in my modest collection. I understand. Without these two distractions the dial would be totally free of clutter, and we could enjoy the unobstructed view of the second hand gliding across the blue snow field. Wouldn’t that be something? snowflake, Rotational symmetry Nature Translational symmetry, snowflakes, blue, symmetry, snowflakes png 1600x1107px 1.23MB gold snowflakes, Snowflake Christmas, Golden snowflakes, pendant, golden Frame, symmetry png 1924x1784px 460.81KB