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I'm in the same boat, won't ever touch a seiko and refuse to do so for for 2 main reasons: 1. They have the gut of naming their watch "save the ocean" and doin
by mickael-kerjean 4y ago
I'm in the same boat, won't ever touch a seiko and refuse to do so for for 2 main reasons:
1. They have the gut of naming their watch "save the ocean" and doing things with PADI when the country they operate in is involved in commercial whaling, still go on fishing species of tuna that are on the verge of extinction or throw sharks back in water still alive after removing their fins just to make some soup. That's appalling, if North Korea would make a watch called "human right" we'd all laught and move on but, I'm not to support a company that make "dive watch" pretending to care about the ocean and not saying/doing anything toward what's actually happening in the country they operate in.
2. I'm a yema fan boy and seiko used to own yema in the 90s. Under their stewardship, they introduced plastic to hold the movement in place instead of the previous metal piece and did change the case onto a cheap low cost copy of what was available before and removed the original hands by some mercedes hands, copying everything Rolex was doing in a cheap package. That period in Yema's history was terrible, hopefully they ended up selling the brand after a few years but boy how did they make a mess
- jimmyjazz14 4y agoWell I don't know that Seiko has been directly involved in whaling in any way and some of the proceeds from the "save the ocean" line are given to divers that work to remove marine debris so that seems like a really odd connection to make.