Seikos in Ginza

Just spent the day in Ginza storming all of the watch shops and thought I would share some impressions and random photos.

I went to the Seiko museum and at least ten different watch shops including Firekids, Vintime, Watch CTI, Antiquoruos, Vintime, Quark, Shellman, and many others.

This has to be the greatest single neighborhood in the world to see watches. I know 47th St in New York has a lot but not curated like this. The vintage collections in Shellman, Vintime, and Firekids were unreal.

The prices seemed very high, particularly with the exchange rate to USD so favorable, but I probably looked at and handled more vintage watches in a day than I could in ten years otherwise.

And for used modern and neo-vintage, there seemed to be a watch shop on every corner.

Definitely a must see neighborhood to spend a day in if you are in Tokyo, not sure there is anything like it outside of Japan.

The Seiko museum was great as well. Free entry but they ask for reservations. Six floors of modest exhibits but some really cool artifacts and history and a nice book for purchase on the way out.

Some random Seiko photos I grabbed from the museum and shops below, apologies for the poor quality.

Still blown away by the watch content I experienced in a single day.

It’s a great museum!

I was very surprised given how favorable the exchange rate is. Some beautiful 5513, 1675, and 1680 vintage rolex’s but wild prices.

I was hoping to find a good condition 62MAS but the condition of the few I saw were not great and prices very high.

Spotted this 1966 806 Navitimer in the mid $3k USD range was about the best “bargain” I found.

You will likely find one! I saw many Pateks in the stores. Just a question of the price. I did not venture out to Nakano Broadway but another fruitful hunting ground.

Not a 2508 but I did see this neo-vintage calatrava that caught my eye: