When people speak of a “Seiko 5,” many are thinking specifically of a single line within that vast family of awesomely affordable automatic watches — the cult-classic, dirt-cheap, but seemingly discontinued SNK field watch. In today’s era of everything-old-being-new-again and everything Seiko being highly hyped (and not without good reason), it would’ve been pure folly not to bring the SNK back in some form, and the new SRPG is it.
Kind of.
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The Seiko 5 Sports line is the brand’s (still recently) resurrected family of entry-level automatic sport watches — and like everything Seiko does today, it’s generally more refined and cohesive than beloved beaters like the original SNK and SKX dive watch.
The dive-style models that debuted the modern Seiko 5 Sports are the descendants of the SKX, and when the brand introduced models with smaller cases and sans the dive-style bezel (but otherwise with an identical design), many watch fans thought that it was meant to represent the SNK as a field watch-type of option.
But the people want proper field watches, and that’s what the new SRPG line delivers. It’s the first to join modern Seiko 5 Sports with a totally different case and design, and it’s the smallest diameter in the collection yet at 39.4mm.
If you know your cheap Seikos, however, you’ll recognize that the basic design of the SNK was passed over for another model from the old Seiko 5 line known as the SNZG: It was bigger than the new models, but otherwise most elements from the dial design to the hand set to the crown positioning at 3 o’clock are straight from the SNZG.
