Clash of The Titans : Seiko Prospex

There had been quite a no. of e-mails in my mailbox that expressed concerns if I was stopping work on the blog. Well, the good or the bad of it, depending on how you enjoyed this blog thus far, was that it was still alive and kicking. It was just that life has been quite hectic of late - what with steering the ship the best that we could in this economic climate, plus supervising the renovation of a couple of houses for rental thereafter. And the fact that the rental ceiling has been floored during the period of renovation, due in part to the depressed economy associated with the negative news of 1MDB and a possible government bailout and Moody's possible de-classification, ain't exactly happy thoughts that would motivate me to put pen to paper on my blog.

But I digress. There may be some hard times coming ahead for the country as a whole but we would just need to persevere on and survive the interim period. The fundamental of the country is still strong, and with good planning, sound policies and some good luck, we could just turn the tide around. Malaysia Boleh!

Back to watches then.

Last year, I wrote about my interest to get the Seiko Prospex SRP639K1 with RRP : RM1,922.50. To me, it was a rather handsome watch with striking colours that made it looked like the IWC Aquatimer's sibling. The stainless steel shroud protector on the Seiko made it a pretty beefy and badass watch, and it was going at 15% off last year as it was a newly-launched model. The street price then was RM1,630.

Given the slow economy coupled with GST, sales of watches had been slowing down. Suddenly, a watch shop had gone on Groupon to do a clearance on its stocks on this model at a massive 40% discount to sell at RM1,159. Hard to believe?! Well, here it was :

A quick check online revealed that this price was indeed cheaper than the other offers online, one of the next-best offer as per the following :

And while it may looked really tempting, before you shout, "Shut up and take my money already!", there was another new Seiko Prospex (Tuna) in town, and it was the model no. SRP 655K1 with RRP : RM2,650. A quick check at the AD over the weekend showed that stocks were starting to trickle in and there was 0% discount at the shops given its relatively new launch. Expect to pay full asking prices for these special edition Prospex Tuna.

There was therefore a real street price difference of circa RM1,100 between both Seiko Prospex models at the interim period, with both Baby Tunas looking equally attractive. If you were to choose between one of them, which one would it be then?