The following time pieces are iconic because they are recognized as quality watches and admired by those in the know. Many introduced significant milestones that changed how watches are made. This list serves as a great reference to learn about the history and milestones of watch making.
The iconic watches are not ranked in any particular order:
- Rolex Oyster + Perpetual - world's first waterproof and dustproof wristwatch (1926), world's first self-winding mechanism with a Perpetual rotor (1931)
- Zenith Defy Lab with Caliber ZO 342 - New and Disruptive monolithic silicon oscillator replacing classic swiss anchor, hairspring and balance wheel (2017)
My original email was meant as a general comment but place in the wrong place. Apologize. However, since you ask I think the Seiko SKX is a true icon in spite of its humble 7s26 caliber and low price. looks good, works well and still very popular after all these years.
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Thank you for your reply. I agree they are tricky to categories and probably just about a company that is one of a kind of the wide offer and innovation. That’s how they almost killed the industry. However, I don’t think you can leave them as they are. Since you have started splitting them up into three you might just as well split them into four. There is such a great difference between a Seiko 5 with 7s26 and the Seiko Marine Master 300m with 8l35 or say a Seiko SKX 007J 7s26 (which I am wearing now, iconic and absolutely love) and a Seiko SARB JDM, one of the ”Baby Grand”s, with 6r15. Which I will put on this afternoon when I sprues up a bit, that you can’t leave it untouched. However, Swiss vintage ‘70s gold Certina high-beat for dinner tonight, correctly placed in your rankings. Keep up the good work! Árni
This was meant to be a general comment but was put in the wrong place. However, if there ever was an iconic watch basically in spite of things it is the SKX007.
My original email was meant to be a general one but put in the wrong place. Apologize. However, since you ask I do think the Seiko skx007 is an icon, in spite of its humble 7s26 and low price, due it good looks, reliability and popularity during all these years.
There was a mistake moving Seiko (Japan) watch-rankings.com-favorite (Seiko Group) from the 1 star Entry Luxury Watches Other Countries category $500 – $1,500 to the Watches Other Countries category <$500 on May 28th, 2018. Seiko is one of those tricky brands to place into one category because of the range of watches that they make. But at the end of the day there's a ton of cheap Seiko watches out there so the Watches category is where it stays.
It is very interesting to see how you handle Seiko, or rather don’t, particularly in regard to their numerous in house movements and JDM models. You basically don’t classify a very large number of their watches and call them also ranss
Longines 1913 should be the first invented chronograph wristwatch. And Zenith El Primero is the first for AUTOMATIC chronograph wristwatch.
John Harwood and Fortis was the one who invented world first self winding with rotor watch in 1926 not Rolex. Hope you can fix that thank you.
My original email was meant as a general comment but place in the wrong place. Apologize. However, since you ask I think the Seiko SKX is a true icon in spite of its humble 7s26 caliber and low price. looks good, works well and still very popular after all these years.
I am having problems seeing my posts accepted. A duplicate warning message came up on my last try. i am osrrybif this cause problems and will stop trying.
The comment was meant to be a general one but went in the wrong place. However, if there ever was an iconic watch it is the SKX007.
I replied under this item by mistake. My comment was meant to be a general one. However, the SKX 007 is an icon!
No, I just posted in the wrong place. Should have been under the main rankings comments and my comments relate to that.
árni
Thank you for your reply. I agree they are tricky to categories and probably just about a company that is one of a kind of the wide offer and innovation. That’s how they almost killed the industry. However, I don’t think you can leave them as they are. Since you have started splitting them up into three you might just as well split them into four. There is such a great difference between a Seiko 5 with 7s26 and the Seiko Marine Master 300m with 8l35 or say a Seiko SKX 007J 7s26 (which I am wearing now, iconic and absolutely love) and a Seiko SARB JDM, one of the ”Baby Grand”s, with 6r15. Which I will put on this afternoon when I sprues up a bit, that you can’t leave it untouched. However, Swiss vintage ‘70s gold Certina high-beat for dinner tonight, correctly placed in your rankings. Keep up the good work!
Árni
Seiko was added to the main brand Rankings list. Is there a Seiko model that you think should be listed on the Most Iconic Watches list?
I replied under this item by mistake. My comment was meant to be a general one. However, the SKX 007 is an icon!
This was meant to be a general comment but was put in the wrong place. However, if there ever was an iconic watch basically in spite of things it is the SKX007.
My original email was meant to be a general one but put in the wrong place. Apologize. However, since you ask I do think the Seiko skx007 is an icon, in spite of its humble 7s26 and low price, due it good looks, reliability and popularity during all these years.
There was a mistake moving Seiko (Japan) watch-rankings.com-favorite (Seiko Group) from the 1 star Entry Luxury Watches Other Countries category $500 – $1,500 to the Watches Other Countries category <$500 on May 28th, 2018. Seiko is one of those tricky brands to place into one category because of the range of watches that they make. But at the end of the day there's a ton of cheap Seiko watches out there so the Watches category is where it stays.
It is very interesting to see how you handle Seiko, or rather don’t, particularly in regard to their numerous in house movements and JDM models. You basically don’t classify a very large number of their watches and call them also ranss