Seiko Presage Luxe

Seiko Arita Porcelain Dial Watch SPB095

$1,700 - Seiko Presage SPB095 - In Stock

It is hard to describe a delicate beauty. You might see the Arita Porcelain SPB095 on different websites, but you truely haven't seen the watch.  When you see the watch you understand the beauty, but you don't truly appreciate the watch until you know the backstory.  The challenge that it was to create such a dial.  A collector might see a beautiful face, but a true conossiur apprecates the meaning and the craftsmanship.  The Arita Porcelain SPB095 is first and foremost about the outstanding dial. 

Backstory - Arita Porcelain Dial

Arita, a small town on Kyushu, the third largest island in the southwest of Japan, came to prominence in the early 17th century when clay suitable for porcelain manufacture was discovered there and its porcelain products soon became highly prized in Japan for the high quality of their artistry.
Within a generation, Arita porcelain, also known as ‘‘Imari ware’’ after the port from which most was shipped, became known overseas and was exported, first to Europe and later across the world when Japan opened its doors to international trade in the 19th century. Today, Arita porcelain is still highly prized worldwide and many porcelain makers still thrive in the town of just 20,000 people, thanks to its long tradition of craftsmanship, to the rich variety of its products and to the uniquely Japanese sensibility that they embody.

The heritage of Arita porcelain is respected in the color of the dials, white with a trace of blue, which was the color of the earliest Arita porcelain. The dials, which are made in Arita itself, have the rich texture and depth which is the signature of all the finest porcelain.
Arita porcelain was therefore a natural choice for the dials of a Presage collection but the Presage team needed to be 100% confident in its durability and strength. A new type of Arita porcelain material, created just three years ago, provided the solution. This new porcelain is more than four times harder than the usual material and has both the strength and flexibility required for a Presage watch dial.

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