Show us your vintage Grands and Kings!

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I don't really know. Aesthetically, the 4520-8000 (top, 4 and 5 from left) is nigh on the perfect watch. slim, elegant, brimming with character, it personifies GS and Tanaka design better even than the slightly more bloated, less well resolved, but more historically significant 4420-9000 (top, third) ever could.

But...

The First (top left) looks a bit bland and derivative in photos, and the idea of cap gold sounds cheap, but in the fleash and on the wrist it feels such a high quality and obsessively fabricated object, and that carved dial is wonderful...

But...

My heart is with the King Seiko 4420-9990 (bottom third from left). A present from my wife, it holds a great sentimental value, but it's also such a forgotten linchpin of the 1960s high-end Seiko universe. The third of the 1963 Chronometer trilogy, it was such a fabulous watch that it was repackaged, and the movement redesigned to negate the need for the beautiful but delicate "kama" hacking lever, to become the Grand Seiko 44, the most iconic GS of them all.