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WHAT WE LOVE:
The SBGM239 is the first and only Grand Seiko GMT watch ever offered on a stainless steel bracelet — a detail that sounds like a minor specification note until you understand that all previous SBGM-series references were strap-only, and that the bracelet makes this watch accessible to a completely different style of daily wear than the strap variants. Grand Seiko's independence as a brand in its own right (from 2017, after decades of existing primarily within the Seiko corporate structure) coincided with a period of rapidly growing international awareness, and Hodinkee's selection of the SBGM239 as a 500-piece US-exclusive collaboration timed precisely with that inflection point. The result is a watch that carries both the specific visual language of the Hodinkee collaboration and the technical specification of Grand Seiko's most accomplished sport GMT movement in a wearable 39.5mm case.
The twilight blue dial is the central design element of the Hodinkee edition — a colour described by Grand Seiko as capturing the transition from day to night, deeply saturated and slightly textured in a way that shifts under different light conditions. Where standard SBGM GMT references carry coloured GMT hands to reference their dial palette, the SBGM239 uses Hodinkee's signature grey for all GMT-function elements: the 24-hour scale on the outer flange and the GMT hand both appear in grey rather than the warm accent colours of the production references. The Hodinkee wordmark appears engraved on the stainless steel exhibition caseback. Limited to 500 pieces and nearly immediately sold out.
WHAT’S INSIDE:
Grand Seiko Calibre 9S66 — 35-jewel automatic GMT movement, 28,800 vph, 72-hour power reserve, hacking seconds. Exhibition sapphire caseback (Hodinkee wordmark engraved). 39.5mm × 13.5mm stainless steel case. Sapphire crystal. 30-metre water resistance.
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