Last week I found photographs of Seiko Spirit SBPB001 posted on a Japanese watch vendor’s Web site. I’m glad to see pictures of an actual watch, rather than just catalog images.

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Photograph by Seiko

This new SBDD001 Kinetic Direct Drive Marinemaster is slated for a May 2008 release. Details are sketchy, but here’s what I can tell you:

Movement is the 5D22 Kinetic with handwinding capability. List price is 241,500 yen. Size is indicated as a whopping 49mm. This might include the crown, but I’m not sure yet. Thickness is 15.1mm. Cases are titanium with diashield like finish. Watches will be available with strap and bracelet, and there also is a black cased model as well.

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Welcome to GMT+9’s latest presentation of various auctions that we and our readers deemed interesting of late. These auctions cover the time period of March 7th - April 14th. The watch pictured above is a Seiko 5M45 Kinetic GMT Brightz. I believe that this was the first Seiko ever released using the “Brightz” name. It dates to 2000. The price was 25,550 yen. Do you see the resemblance to the Citizen Mission Antarctica?

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Photograph by Seiko

I’ve been thinking more and more about Seiko’s Spacewalk announcement and release. I’m starting to realize what a great marketing opportunity this could be for Seiko. So much so in fact that if I were Omega, I would be watching this project very closely.

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Photograph by Seiko

Kohei Sato at Timezone just reported that Seiko has announced the release of a brand new Spring Drive chronograph marketed directly at the venerable Omega Speedmaster. This no nonsense bullhead design is all about functionality. Super legible military style dial, lots of lume, cool hands and the best implementation of a Spring Drive power reserve meter that I’ve ever seen.

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