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Grand Seiko · Elegance

Grand Seiko SBGX261

Dress

$2,700Stock unknown

eBay sold ≈ $2,519 · 29 sold listings

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Case

Diameter
37mm
Thickness
10mm
Lug-to-lug
44.6mm
Lug width
19mm
Material
Stainless Steel
Water resistance
100m

Crystal & dial

Crystal
Sapphire
AR coating
Yes

Movement

Caliber
Grand Seiko 9F62
Type
Quartz
Hacking
No
Hand-winding
No
Complications
Time only

Grand Seiko

Grand Seiko's legendary high-accuracy quartz caliber rated to plus or minus 10 seconds per year, far exceeding standard quartz accuracy. Features an aged quartz crystal selected by individual testing, a twin-pulse control system for precise hand movement, and a backlash auto-adjust mechanism that eliminates gear play. The 9F series redefined what quartz could achieve and remains among the finest quartz movements ever produced.

Design language

Case shape
round
Dial style
matte
Bezel
fixed
Bracelet
lug-attached
Hands
dauphine

AI-detected from the product image

SBGX261 collection · 22 watches

SBGK006
SBGK00639mm
SBGK007
SBGK00739mm
SBGM221
SBGM22139.5mm
SBGP007
SBGP00740mm
SBGP009
SBGP00940mm
SBGR261
SBGR26139.5mm
SBGR321
SBGR32140mm
SBGV239
SBGV23940mm
SBGW257
SBGW25738mm
SBGW258
SBGW25838mm
SBGW262
SBGW26239mm
SBGW281
SBGW28137.3mm
9 more in this collection
SBGW291SBGW306SBGX353SBGX355SBGY002SBGY007SBGY011STGF359STGF387

3 colorways

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01The living market

This one moves.

Tracked on the secondary market, updated through the day. Not appraisals or offers.

Retail$2,700

12 for sale right now, and 6 closed in the last 30 days.

  • ·Asking and closing medians, each with the number of listings behind it
  • ·The weekly trend, on a real time scale
  • ·How long one takes to sell, from the listings that closed
  • ·All 12 listings, priced and linked

Grand Seiko on the secondhand market

Somewhere in +2.3% to +9.8%

39 matched watches

Dress watches as a group: +9.5% · 187 matched watches

Year-by-year readings →

Four signals, read separately

Supply, attention, intent and resale, each read from its own evidence and reported with its own sample. They are never added together: a watch that is hard to buy and a watch that is badly wanted are different facts, and one blended number cannot tell you which you are looking at.

Scarcity

Free

Whether the brand still sells it, and every change we have seen.

Reading…

Read from the brand's own product pages and stock feeds, not from shops or resale listings. We can only show changes we saw, so a quiet history is not proof that nothing moved.

Attention

Free

How many people here are keeping track of it.

Reading…

Favourites, collections and wishlists from signed-in members, counted as distinct people. Views are excluded on purpose: per-watch view counts were found to anti-correlate with real traffic and there is no bot filter at the write path. Gross adds only, because an un-save deletes its row, so a fall here is less new interest and not people walking away.

Intent

Market+

Taps through to somewhere it can actually be bought.

Part of Market+

Outbound taps are the one axis we assemble ourselves rather than read off somebody else's storefront, and they are part of Market+.

One row per redirect we issued to somewhere this watch can be bought, written on the server after the destination was checked, with crawlers excluded. A tap is intent and never a purchase: no sale or commission can be derived from it. The log carries no exposure count, so there is no click-through rate here and no ranking of watches by taps.

Liquidity

Free

How often it changes hands, and how many are for sale now.

12 listed on the secondary market

14 sales closed in the last 90 days.

45 further sales with no date, counted apart because they belong to no window.

Public enthusiast forum listings matched to this reference automatically, counted alongside dealer storefronts and never blended with them. Counts only on this panel. What one is worth is the market act's own question, and its figures carry their own sample sizes.

A silent axis is shown rather than hidden, so the ones with something to say cannot be mistaken for the whole picture.

02The connection engine

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03The community take

Owners talk.

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Owners widely praise the Grand Seiko SBGX261 for its exceptional finishing, rivaling mechanical watches, and the high-precision, hand-assembled 9F quartz movement, noted for its accuracy within 10 seconds per year. The 37mm case size and versatile design are frequently highlighted as key strengths, making it a comfortable and stylish everyday watch. However, the bracelet's lack of micro-adjustments and taper is a recurring criticism, and one owner notes the second hand's inconsistent alignment with markers. On balance, owners rate the Grand Seiko SBGX261 highly for its superb finishing and the technical prowess of its 9F quartz movement at its price point.

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04The paper trail

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05The discussion

Talk about the Grand Seiko SBGX261.