Story of an Icon: Seiko Tuna History

In this video I would like to talk about a true icon of the diving world, the Seiko Tuna: a unique design in this field. This is a watch which, in my opinion, is the only true competitor for the Omega Seamaster PloProf as the finest piece of horological marine engineering of the 1970s.

[pvflyer]

Great video thanks 4 posting. I still have my original 300m Tuna. Best watch I've ever had.

[rolandcarlile]

Nice video, thanks for going to all the effort of this great history.
Have a few tunas and enjoy them a lot.

[anibalbabilonia]

Timeless beauty! The Seiko tuna watches that stand the test of times!👌🥰👍

[Lee_K_]

I'm enjoying this series of deep dives (get it?) into historically important watches. If you ever see a Tuna on the arm of a person out in the street, you can be certain that they are a watch enthusiast. Nobody outside of our community really knows about these watches and they certainly can't understand why someone would pay so much for a quartz dive watch. But we watch nerds can and do.

[dvamateur]

Very good video. Yeah, to me the Seiko professional dive watches have always been the ultimate statement in technology for real world divers, while the Submariner or Sea Dweller have been more of tuxedo jewelry "divers". :) The Seamasters being something in between the Seiko and Rolex.

[zermike]

Have watch this so many times.
I love my SBBN033 and my emperor tuna.

[masqueman]

educational and enjoyable. Thanks for the effort... This cleared up a few questions I had

[masudashizue]

I used to have the 1980 titanium quartz tuna. It had a case twice as thick as most watches, and the straps were ridiculously long for my 6-1/4" wrist. You had to have full scuba gear on for it to look natural sitting on your wrist.

[ClubmanGT]

Utterly superb review of an incredible diver series.

[CCJ]

Damn! I love how much love the Tuna is getting. Thanks for this man, hope you would consider covering the tunas in the near future

[coldcarlsberg]

Thanks for the nice informative video. I'm wearing my Gold Tuna 7549-7009 non-SQ JDM while watching.

[Matt-uqin]

Love the tuna, I have the sbbn 015 in my collection love this hand set 😍

[ecogator]

Nice video. I love my 6159-7010...with today's big watch trend this watch is very wearable for casual situations.

[teamhonn]

very nice video thanks so much for doing so much work to give us great information.

[tharris]

Excellent presentation providing rich information. Thanks for this.

[j.r.regenold]

Enjoyed this show very much. I am a big Seiko fan and love anything that helps me learn more about their history

[stephenward]

I do love my Seiko dive watches.My 200m solar black and gold really is special, the second hand hits all the minute and hour markers spot on.I will get the 1000m in the future.

[siamwatchaddict]

Saturation divers live in a compression /decompression chamber for a period of up to 28 days..During this time they breath a gas mixture of 98% helium 2% Oxygen .. The average automatic diver watch, at some point needs to be synchronized due to minutes lost over a week or so.. Helium will always be present in dive watch cases.. The critical period is during decompression of the divers back to surface. This can take days and sometimes up to a week depending on how deep they where diving..During this time if the watch is not submerged.The helium escape valve must be opened to avoid crystal pop.. The preferred models have a automatic escape valve like the Rolex Deep Sea dweller.. I have known Omega Sea masters to fail in Saturation often.. Basically sometimes divers forget to open the release valve.. Helium incursion is unavoidable ...

[hawk]

Great video. I have no idea where you found so much information on this watch. It makes me want to go out and buy one of the vintage model. You do deserve more views and likes.

[lion-zs]

Very informative.thank you for your depth into the tuna.