Seiko King Quartz 5856-8070 Review

weng_c

8 months ago

I managed to snag a Seiko King Quartz recently and I’m pleasantly surprised by it!

Let’s get the specifications out of the way:

Case size: 35.5 mm

Lug to lug: 41.5 mm

Thickness: 8.2 mm

Crystal: Mineral glass

Dial: Silver with applied baton indices. Baton hands.

Complications: Day Date. You can choose the day to show in Kanji or English.

Case and bracelet: Stainless Steel

Crown: Unguarded, tiny and signed with “cock and balls” logo for single crystal quartz

Movement: Seiko 5856 quartz

Made in Japan in the Daini facility (Seiko Instruments (SII) today)

The size fits my wrist perfectly. The hidden lugs make the watch look like it has an integrated bracelet and gives the watch more presence on the wrist than a watch with normal lugs of the same size.

I love all things 70s. It’s slim, it’s light, it keeps time well. Set and forget. Grab and go.

I got it on the original bracelet that had fixed links and could only be sized using the quick adjust holes on the clasp. It also came with an extension on the clasp for larger wrists. For my wrist size I didn’t need to use the extension.

It’s so versatile! It can be used dressed up as well as just going around in jeans and a t-shirt.

Plain silver dial:

Oh so slim!

On my naked wrist:

With shirt and jacket:

Bonus pic. A picture from a catalogue for King Quartz and King Seiko watches in 1976. King Quartz watches were going for around ¥55,000 back then. Almost double the price of a King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic!