9 Months With My Seiko Alpinist: Not a Strap Monster

This Seiko Alpinist is the reason I got obsessed with watches. Nine months in, here's the good, the bad, the one strap that actually works on it, and whether I'd buy it again. I'm 6'3" with an 8-inch wrist. My weekly email has the best new watch releases, and first dibs when a watch leaves my collection: https://holdenswatchdesk.com/email/?s... The watches in this video, with specs and sources: Seiko Alpinist SPB121: https://holdenswatchdesk.com/watches/... Tissot PRX Powermatic 80 Gold: https://holdenswatchdesk.com/watches/... Watch next, where the Alpinist landed in my ranking: I Ranked Every Watch I've Ever Owned    • I Ranked Every Watch I've Ever Owned   Chapters 0:00 The watch that got me obsessed 0:50 The dial 2:29 The size 3:22 The strap 4:41 Living with it 5:24 If you want one 6:08 The verdict Sources Specs: Seiko (39.5 mm case, 6R35 with about 70 hours of power reserve, 200 m water resistance). Seiko's US site returns "Page Not Found" for the SPB121 (checked October 30, 2026); the SPB507 is listed at $900 there the same day. Opinions, straps and wrist shots: mine. I bought this Alpinist with my own money. No brand paid for anything in this video, and no brand supplied the watch. How it's made: the narration is my own voice through an ElevenLabs clone of it, and the pixel-art cartoons are AI-assisted. All watch footage and photos are mine.