Often called the "Kinetic Tuna," it clearly does not belong to the famed Tuna series. It has a shroud, yes, but the shroud is much more like the retired Sawtooth, and VERY similar to the new sky-series of prospex watches from Seiko. The dial on these new gmt kinetic divers are also similar to the tunas, but just as similar to the sawtooth, while ultimately departing from all others with the elevated loom reservoirs (that, by the way, do last longer than my super-bright monster lume).
I would be thrilled to have a tuna. To wear a tuna on my wrist and contemplate the history and engineering innovations made, on demand, to solve real problems; to test at greater and greater depths to maintain function during saturation diving, not to impress upon a community of collectors who do not dive a sense of quality by bumping up the WR numbers - incidentally, in a time when "dive watches" rarely have a place in a scuba diving expedition anyway.
I like my kinetic diver a lot, and because I wanted the GMT feature it is the watch I need now, but I can't kid myself into thinking its on the same level as a tuna. Hell, I bought mine for 1/4 the price of a used darth tuna sold for on eBay just a few days ago. It's a very nice kinetic gmt diver, with a lot of wrist presence, and now, an amazing bargain for the price, but no tuna.
I'd like to ask others with more knowledge about the Seiko divers and the changes through different series, where does this watch draw from? Is the sawtooth the direct precursor or are there others? How unique is this watch with its deep dial features? And, what would be a more historically-accurate name for this watch than kinetic tuna?
Cheers.
CD
I would be thrilled to have a tuna. To wear a tuna on my wrist and contemplate the history and engineering innovations made, on demand, to solve real problems; to test at greater and greater depths to maintain function during saturation diving, not to impress upon a community of collectors who do not dive a sense of quality by bumping up the WR numbers - incidentally, in a time when "dive watches" rarely have a place in a scuba diving expedition anyway.
I like my kinetic diver a lot, and because I wanted the GMT feature it is the watch I need now, but I can't kid myself into thinking its on the same level as a tuna. Hell, I bought mine for 1/4 the price of a used darth tuna sold for on eBay just a few days ago. It's a very nice kinetic gmt diver, with a lot of wrist presence, and now, an amazing bargain for the price, but no tuna.
I'd like to ask others with more knowledge about the Seiko divers and the changes through different series, where does this watch draw from? Is the sawtooth the direct precursor or are there others? How unique is this watch with its deep dial features? And, what would be a more historically-accurate name for this watch than kinetic tuna?
Cheers.
CD