Love this! Where did you get it and if you don’t mind me asking... how much? Looks like citizen wanted to make their own GS Snowflake
Dive watch for the grocery store Dress watch for sweatpants on the couch (with wine... Sonoma Bordeaux... just OK) Chronograph for diving(into a sugar coma)
I dig the way the sub dials are basically a blacker shade of black. Like portals into another dimension. 10/10
Nice little Zenith made trenchy with a high grade Zenith mvmt with swan neck regulator... and below a bit of info for the history/movement nufties By the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Zenith was already well established and famous as one of Switzerland’s most prestigious watch making houses. Like its venerable competitors Omega, Vacheron & Constantin and Longines, Zenith had been a producer of luxurious pocket watches aimed at a wealthy, high spending clientele who could afford to pay for the attention to detail associated with its movements. Whether by choice or due to market pressure we don’t know, but certainly by the middle of the conflict period, Zenith had translated its efforts into the creation of some exceptionally fine wristwatches, including the Land & Water model. The Land & Water is rare, certainly noticeably more unusual than its conventionally signed Zenith branded equivalents from the same era, and there are at least two factors that explain its scarcity. Zenith never offered the Land & Water as a model for sale through its worldwide distribution network, but instead produced it uniquely for a single high society London jeweller, Birch & Gaydon. In every respect, this is a thoroughbred Zenith, signed as such on its case and movement, but its dial bore the name of its commissioning concern. Interestingly, the Land & Water was offered in two distinct versions, both of which we have for sale at the time of writing. The first of these utilised a case manufactured to the Borgel patent, with no separate case back and the movement screwing into its housing from the front. This arrangement is historically important and the Borgel design was licensed to almost all the top tier makers at the time, including Rolex, Longines and IWC. For anyone wanting to become familiar with this term, we would suggest that our other vintage watches for sale on this site from the 1910s and ‘20s are browsed, where several Borgel cased examples are offered at the moment. The movement in this watch is Zenith calibre 10 NVSI, a hand wound unit that was launched in 1916 and remained in production for only six years, making it something of a collector’s rarity today. This is confirmed when we look at the total volume of the 10 NVSI manufactured, 21900 units, which is only just over a fifth of the 102000 examples of its contemporary, the 11 NVSI, that were built between 1904 and 1926. A good illustrative example of how sophisticated and ahead of their time these early Zenith movements were is the regulator arrangement on the calibre here. All the other top tier Swiss houses at this point were more or less using a fairly crude simple pointer regulation system, but Zenith had already pioneered a very advanced micrometer regulator that enabled the oscillation rate of the balance to be set far more precisely than would otherwise have been possible. Vintage Omega fanatics often comment that the complex regulator on the chronometer rated versions of the company’s 30mm movements of the 1950s was one of the most brilliant innovations of the golden age of Swiss watch making, but if they looked further back in time and examined these early pre-1925 Zenith units, they would be surprised that the exact same system for extremely fine incremental regulation is employed here.
$2400 USD from Seiya, he is a great resource for JDM products https://www.seiyajapan.com It is Grand Seiko level at not quite GS prices, it really is stunning in the flesh.