Pros & Cons
Pros
The green dial appears to be a deep green that in direct light turns into a brighter metallic green with sunray highlights. Even the central hands have decorative flourishes where the hour and minute hands, dauphine shaped with pencil tips, have dark ... Read More
Highlights
Quality
I 'm overall very pleased with the watch so far.
The 8t67 in the ssb385p1 does away with the 24-hour sub-dial and instead has 12-hour chronograph sub-dial which is far more use... Read More
Packaging/appearance
In fact seiko's product photos don't do any justice to the watch's looks.
Overview
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- This product had a total of 40 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 28 2023.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Most chronograph watches only count to 30 minutes
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The seiko ssb385p1 uses seikos 8t67 movement which is a quartz movement with a mechanical chronograph complication
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
That said most other mechaquartz unfortunately tend to use the 8t63 whose major drawback is the 24hour subdial that is only really useful if you need a daynight indicator or need to use military time but are not very good at doing the conversion mentally
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The 8t67 in the ssb385p1 does away with the 24hour subdial and instead has 12hour chronograph subdial which is far more useful for those who need to time longer events
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In fact seikos product photos dont do any justice to the watchs looks
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The products photos make the dial seem drab dull and boring which the ssb385p1 is anything but
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The green dial appears to be a deep green that in direct light turns into a brighter metallic green with sunray highlights
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Case thickness is also only 12