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Seiko · 5 Sports SKX series

Seiko 5 Sports SKX series

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$495Stock unknown
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Case

Diameter
42.5mm
Thickness
13.6mm
Lug-to-lug
46mm
Lug width
22mm
Material
Stainless Steel
Water resistance
100m

Crystal & dial

Crystal
Hardlex
Lume
LumiBrite on hands and index(es)

Movement

Caliber
Seiko 4R34
Type
Automatic
Power reserve
41h
Jewels
24
Hacking
No
Hand-winding
No
Complications
Time only

Design language

Case shape
round
Dial style
matte
Bezel
gmt
Bracelet
lug-attached
Hands
mercedes

AI-detected from the product image

5 Sports SKX series collection · 11 watches

5 Sports SKX series
5 Sports SKX series28mm
5 Sports SKX series
5 Sports SKX series38mm
5 Sports SKX series 2024 Special Edition
5 Sports SKX series 2024 Special Edition42.5mm
5 Sports SKX series BAMFORD Limited Edition, Seiko Boutique exclusive model
5 Sports SKX series BAMFORD Limited Edition, Seiko Boutique exclusive model42.5mm
5 Sports SKX series DENHAM Limited Edition, Seiko Boutique exclusive model
5 Sports SKX series DENHAM Limited Edition, Seiko Boutique exclusive model42.5mm
5 Sports SKX series Heritage Design Re-creation Limited Edition
5 Sports SKX series Heritage Design Re-creation Limited Edition38.2mm
5 Sports SKX series MOONEYES Limited Edition
5 Sports SKX series MOONEYES Limited Edition42.5mm
5 Sports SKX series Pink Panther Limited Edition
5 Sports SKX series Pink Panther Limited Edition38mm
5KX
5KX42.5mm
DressKX
DressKX40mm

7 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$495

11 for sale right now, and 9 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 11 listings, priced and linked

Seiko on the secondhand market

+7.9%

2026 so far · +3.2% to +12.7% · 75 matched watches

In line with the index

GMT watches as a group: +7.4% · 86 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.

11 listed on the secondary market

24 sales closed in the last 90 days.

113 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.

“

The Seiko 5 Sports SKX series is widely praised as an excellent gateway watch, offering great value with a solid build and powerful lume. Owners widely report that the NH36 movement's accuracy is a "luck of the draw," with official specs allowing up to +/-40 seconds per day, though many experience +/-5 to 10 seconds. Some owners note the lack of a screw-down crown and 100m water resistance, while others highlight its ISO 6425 compliance, 200m water resistance, and screw-down crown as superior tool watch features. Some owners find the original SKX models heavier and bulkier than newer lines, while others praise its iconic, tough, and rugged dive watch design and proven durability. On balance, owners and reviewers rate the Seiko 5 Sports SKX series highly for its iconic, durable dive watch design and strong value proposition.

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05The discussion

Talk about the Seiko 5 Sports SKX series.