Seiko’s Presage collection is undergoing a massive update at the moment with new additions to the Style 60s series that we’ve already looked at as well as today new additions to the Classic Series and Cocktail Time. As 36mm and 34mm models respectively, they do lean more towards being ladies watches but they’re still cool additions to the range. Plus I think the pun in the name of the Cocktail Time ‘Frozen Cocktails’ makes them worthy of being discussed on that merit alone.
Seiko Presage Classic Series Edo Silk
There are three new watches in the Seiko Presage Classic Series, each named after and inspired by a popular colour shades from the Edo period in Japan with silk texture dials. They are the ‘Aijiro’ pale cyan, ‘Fushi-iro’ light brown and ‘Shiro-iro’ white. Each of the watches feature 36mm cases with classy round shapes, large knurled crowns and sweeping lugs that lead into a seven-link bracelet inspired by the 1970s. The Shiro-iro edition also features and an extra gold PVD coating over the steel to emphasise the luxurious nature of silk.
While the watches are fairly small (though larger than the second set of watches we are about to look at) don’t mistake them for being toys or cheap quartz. They’re powered by the 6R51 calibre, which is part of Seiko’s high spec 6R range of movements as evidenced by the excellent 72-hour power reserve. They’re also great value as despite housing a 6R movement they remain sub-£1,000 at £900.
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Seiko Presage Cocktail Time ‘Frozen Cocktails’
In the introduction I mentioned that the name of the Seiko Presage Cocktail Time ‘Frozen Cocktails’ is a pun, so I should now explain it. These 34mm watches have diamonds set into their indices in the four cardinal positions. Another term for diamonds is ice, therefore these are Cocktail Time watches that have been iced, therefore they are ‘Frozen Cocktails’. Badum-Tish. That’s pretty much the entire reason I wanted to talk about this launch.
They are actually very nice ladies watches for all that though. They’re each inspired by a popular cocktail as is the tradition of the collection. So we have the ‘Frozen Skydiving’, ‘Frozen Mojito’, and the ‘Frozen Daiquiri’ in blue, green and yellow-gold with a frosted texture on the dials. The Daiquiri doubles down on the luxury of the diamond indexes with a bi-colour case construction.
Powering them is the 4R35 automatic, making them a touch more accessible than the Classic Series above. Which makes sense because the Cocktail Time has always been the entry-level model in the Presage range. The Skydiving and Mojito are £500 and the Daiquiri is £540.
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More details at Seiko Boutique.
