...and holy cow, this thing is amazing. Huge book filled with luscious, high-concept photographs from still-life maestro Philippe Lacombe. Love how they did much more than just dial shots and a timeline of each – it's clear a lot of thought went into this book, and it really shows. I'll have to get a proper shot of my LMLE with the 2010 page entry...

 

Awesome. What models does it cover? I seem to remember someone saying it was the sport/diver models, some of the obscure 70's megaquartz and things but not the dress watches?

 

It essentially covers everything that's ever been called a Seamaster (including all the Aqua Terras). Granted, not every variant (color, dial, case composition etc.) is represented here, but every design change or feature update is noted, and why it's important to the evolution of the Seamaster. For example, the Seamaster 300 entry in 2014 is for the Sedna gold variant, not the stainless steel one, as it marked the first time a Seamaster deployed the Ceragold technology.

 

Ah. So it does include Bumpers, DeVilles, Cosmics, 120's etc etc?

 

Cool! I've read some reviews on it, and the consensus is that there isn't a ton of written content, so mostly just pictures. Is that the case? no pun intended

 

That's correct – little bit of everything! Saw the 'Banana' in here earlier today!

Correct – it's pretty light on reading – every watch has a short paragraph. It's much less a 'history' book, and more of a 'design' book, I'd say – especially given the really unique still-life photography style of the watches themselves. Very cool to look through.

 

Buffalo Trace! You have good taste in watches and in bourbon!

 

Need to do this with my LMLE!

 

Thank you sir! Cheers!

 

That looks like a really cool book

 

lol you gonna fill up every page with a live piece. In my dreams

 

nice book and watches. Is the book mention any railmaster models?

 

Unfortunately, no Railmasters are profiled in the book. Here's hoping they produce a dedicated Railmaster volume.

 

I, for one, am very disappointed by this book. I would NOT recommend it, I’m sorry to say.

I’d hoped for something like MWO, a detailed reference that would allow someone like me, who knows little about the details of these watches (despite my studying here at OF University), to learn more and be able to distinguish fraud from genuine.

But no.

Artsy photos with very, very few words. And some pages are as empty as these:


There’s very little information and I wouldn’t consider the book a real reference of any sort. But, if you want artsy photos of Seamasters, here you go.

Just IMO.

 

Funny, those are literally some of my favorite pages. It's not a reference book, as noted by a few folks above – it's clearly a design book, and a fantastic one at that. And honestly, since there's so much design homogeny with the Speedmaster, but so much incredible variety with the Seamaster, I'd argue that celebrating the diversity of design is a much more interesting approach here.

 

thanks. How about Aqua Terra? is there any?

 

Yep, several generations of the AT are documented here.

 

Mine arrived too. I was slightly disappointed as I was expecting more of a "reference book" covering all the models, but it's more of a "gallery" book that covers a great number of Seamaster references. The photos are very stylized and glamorous.

 

So I had a parcel arriving yesterday, too. Obviously this big online books store which is now opening grocery shops, unlearned how to handle books for mail shipment. It was thrown in a too big box, not padded anyhow and arrived with the lower right corner of the book sticking out having punctured the cardboard and beeing crumpled.
So easy decision to send it back. It will probably go to the shredder. What a waste.

I flipped throught it and was astonished about the 80ies pieces, I partly didn't know about. I was also disappointed that there was only one sword hand SMP (Gerry Lopez GMT) given the variety of dials and cases of this series.

So this is a nice give away IMHO but nothing I want spend my money on.