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12 March 2022
Seiko Sumo Blumo 2nd-Gen is a Fantastic Beast
- seller's pictures very accurate
- wonderful watch
- wonderful lume (bright and lasts all night)
- still ticking away well after 7 years
- bezel timer still works (not loose)
- crown in great shape
Watch:
- love the watch, best diver and maybe best watch I've ever worn.
- definitely a thumbs up for the old gen2 Sumo, sad they stopped making them
- very comfortable (don't let the size fool you, very comfortable even for a small wrist)
- very easy to read
- no glare problem
- clear crystal (not hazy)
- great hands, very visible
- wonderful clock-ticking sound
- wearing with a Nato strap
- loving the blue color (no blue gen3...hope they make a new blumo)
- super loom
25 August 2021
Why doesn't Bulova make readable chronographs?
The main problem is that the hands are very difficult to read, as if this is a style-fashion-only watch.
How and why someone would make a chronograph stopwatch with an extremely hard to read if not impossible to read in any lighting minute counter is unfathomable. A watch does one thing: track time. What is a watch that doesn't tell you how much time passed? A fraud? A catastrophe?
17 April 2022
This is a 1st-Gen "Scuba" Sumo. Better than 3rd Gen, not as good as 2nd Gen. Get a 2nd gen.
2 of 2 found this helpful sumo 123 reviews
This is a 1st-Gen "Scuba" Sumo. Better than 3rd Gen, not as good as 2nd Gen. Get a 2nd gen. The 2nd-gen blue sumo may be simply the best dive watch ever made period. The overall design just comes together and works with great personality and great functionality (a dive watch that's easy to see the time on if your life depends on it: yes, please!!)
This is the first-gen "Scuba" sumo before the ProspeX 2nd-Gen. I have one of each-gen (1st, 2nd, 3rd, for proper comparison) and the main difference I see between 1st and 2nd gen is that the Lume on the 1st gen is not as cleanly applied and is not quite as bright, but not bad. The pip housing is also slightly bigger on 1st-gen compared to 2nd-gen but the actual lume size seems the same (odd). All-night lume for sure. The large bezel pip is great, I don't know why Seiko does not use this size Bezel pip on more watches.
The 3rd gen is a disaster. The 3rd-gen lume is horribly weak compared to 2nd gen. The glare-haze on the black 3rd gen dial is a design build catastrophe. Stay far away from 3rd-gen. Sadly. Let's hope the 4th gen recovers the good parts of 2nd gen.
This watch 1st-gen has the curved crystal like the 2nd gen and while it's a little glarey sometimes, overall it's very good. The domed crystal is quite nice.
The blue color is excellent.
The aluminum bezel ages very beautifully.
Readability in various lights: Yes, and yes, great all around. Any angle, any light, it's easy to read. The cathedral hour hand is great.
(Note: again, they destroyed this on the 3rd-gen by (I guess) trying to make everything shiny looking and angled, with the result that you just can't see anything. Horrible, horrible, horrible.)
From what I can see the Sumo is a sturdy tank and can take years of use and keep on ticking (with a very very lovely sound...if that matters to some people).
And the normal bit: even if you have a small wrist the sumo will be super comfortable, even though you won't believe it. It's true. It's mind-bendingly comfortable, probably the most comfortable watch I've ever worn.
I recommend a crown and buckle brand nato strap.
Time keeping:
All three sumos that I have are all quite a bit slow, like 15-20 seconds a day. Which is...just bad. There's no reason why they could not have been better regulated. But the watch overall is so fabulous that it's worth using anyway.
The date window on 1-st and 2-nd gen is the same as far as I can see, it's very good. Nice big date number (3rd-gen date window line looks just horrible and blurred somehow...trainwreck of a watch)
One more note on LUME: While the 2nd gen lume is the best I've seen on a Seiko, there is still a big white band of glue-paint or whatever that is around the lume pip. The 3rd gen could have kept the same big lume pip size but gotten ride of that white-circle to shrink the metal ring.
4th gen needs to bring back the bezel font and make the lume ever better and even bigger, and get rid of that non-functional sparkle-garbage. Maybe add an extra beveled edge to the hands, but don't ruin them and make them invisible. (Maybe a lighter titanium case?) A 4:30 date window, and a GMT hand to round things off. That would be a decent 4th gen: Super-mega-lume Sumo with 2nd-gen pedigree and a gmt hand.