Grand Seiko Spring Drive Nissan GT-R Anniversary Limited Edition SBGC229 Watch

Grand Seiko and Nissan just launched one cold-looking limited edition in celebration of their respective 20th and 50th anniversaries At the end of 2018, Grand Seiko launched a mildly different-looking, albeit customizable, ~$200,000 gold-ceramic version of the Spring Drive Chronograph to go with the million-dollar Italdesign-restyled GT-R car Grand Seiko has rectified the issue with this Spring Drive Nissan GT-R Anniversary Limited Edition SGBC229 - still priced high but not quite so high that it feels like a blatant money-grab effort.

On page 2 of that article, you'll read about the history of Spring Drive and learn about the 30-year-long process it took to transform the concept into reality - and also learn how Spring Drive actually truly debuted not in 1999, as this 20th anniversary would suggest, but in 2005 Anyhow Wrapped in dark blue ceramic, the Grand Seiko Spring Drive Nissan GT-R Anniversary Limited Edition SGBC229 is as large as previous ceramic iterations of the Spring Drive Chronograph Inside the Spring Drive Nissan GT-R Anniversary piece is the 9R96 caliber that I recall differs from the "Lesser" 9R86 in that it has more finely sorted quartz crystal oscillators that allow for improved timekeeping performance - down to +/- 05 seconds per day from the 9R86's +/- 1 seconds per day.

The Grand Seiko Spring Drive Nissan GT-R Anniversary Limited Edition SGBC229 will be a limited edition of just 200 pieces with a retail price of €21,600 in Europe - USD price to be confirmed. . Source