albionphoto wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:23 pm Seiko won 66% to 34%. Oh well. It's hard to beat the Seiko fandom

You make it sound as if the only way they won was because of fandom, and that Seiko wouldn’t have won without outside help.

Even tho a dedicated forum was asked to help out. A tad ironic in my view.

TheBeatles wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:31 pm

albionphoto wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:23 pm Seiko won 66% to 34%. Oh well. It's hard to beat the Seiko fandom

You make it sound as if the only way they won was because of fandom, and that Seiko wouldn’t have won without outside help.

Even tho a dedicated forum was asked to help out. A tad ironic in my view.

I'm not a fan of either watch, there are a lot more fans of Seiko than CW and this forum is tiny. My irony was implicit, yours was not.

albionphoto wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 11:43 am

TheBeatles wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:31 pm

albionphoto wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:23 pm Seiko won 66% to 34%. Oh well. It's hard to beat the Seiko fandom

You make it sound as if the only way they won was because of fandom, and that Seiko wouldn’t have won without outside help.

Even tho a dedicated forum was asked to help out. A tad ironic in my view.

I'm not a fan of either watch, there are a lot more fans of Seiko than CW and this forum is tiny. My irony was implicit, yours was not.

Don’t quite see it that way!!

You mentioned fandom.

Of course you don't.

StrappedUp wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:06 am Coming from someone who currently has the Dune GMT, has handled a few Alpinists and also owns a Seiko Laurel Alpinist re-interpretation, I can say hand on heart that the Seiko is nowhere near the watch that the Dune is.
I'm a big Seiko fan as well as CW . . . . the Seiko is a decent watch at its price point, but I'd say the Dune is a fantastic watch at RRP.

. . . . and so say all of us. These surveys are for armchair Generals and for those who as small boys played highest up the wall . . . and probably still do looking at the comments section on the Fratello site. For what its worth I have a 36mm (standard grade Sellita movement) and a Baby Alpinist with the same 6R35 as the 'compass bezel' Alpinist. The Sealander timegraph report reads -3.5 secs/day and the Seiko -16. They both cost the same but the Seiko is heading for the door as I am so disappointed with it, to be replaced with another CWL.

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