Oct 19, 2026 · 36 min · 9 segments
Kas is flying solo today and has decided to do an impromtu review of the Seiko Cocktail Time SRPE15 on air. For the show he's drinking the Hakushu single malt whisky. We go through some of the early…
Michael and I talk way more than what actually makes it on the show.
And I think there was an Orient release where it was either an Orient or a Citizen release where I was just like, man.
Orient and Citizen are like totally clearing the gap or really putting out a lot of things that are hitting this affordable dress wash market pretty hard.
I feel like I haven't seen anything from Seiko in a long time.
I think Mike was just like, dude, the cocktail time is it.
Like...
They struck gold with that original one.
And we'll talk a little bit about the history of the watch and everything like that.
And they're like, they struck gold with that original one.
You know, they obviously have some dress watches, you know, particularly in the Presage line and everything like that.
But...
After that, you know, they've just been kind of...
That's the...
If you don't want to get, like, a Seiko 5 or one of those random sort of entry-level Seikos, and you want to spend, you know, anywhere from $3,000 to $1,000-ish, you can get a sweet dress watch from the Seiko Presage line, and obviously the...
A large majority of that collection is now going to be comprised of different cocktail times, all kinds of different Seiko cocktail times.
So the one in particular that I have it is the Green Dial.
It has some brass pieces, or not brass, it's kind of like a yellow gold sort of secondhand.
It's the SRPE15.
We'll talk about that one specifically, but the Seiko cocktail time, for people who aren't aware, originally came out in the 2010s.
And this is something that I learned, which is fascinating.
A few years back, it wasn't just the cocktail time that we knew it.
The Teiko Cocktail Time was really a collaboration between Seiko and a renowned bartender whose name I'm not going to say properly.
And so the idea was that they went to this bartender and they said, hey, you know, give us some ideas for watches.
And there were actually originally three watches that this bartender individual worked on.
Michael and I talk way more than what actually makes it on the show.
And I think there was an Orient release where it was either an Orient or a Citizen release where I was just like, man.
Orient and Citizen are like totally clearing the gap or really putting out a lot of things that are hitting this affordable dress wash market pretty hard.
I feel like I haven't seen anything from Seiko in a long time.
I think Mike was just like, dude, the cocktail time is it.
Like...
They struck gold with that original one.
And we'll talk a little bit about the history of the watch and everything like that.
And they're like, they struck gold with that original one.
You know, they obviously have some dress watches, you know, particularly in the Presage line and everything like that.
But...
After that, you know, they've just been kind of...
That's the...
If you don't want to get, like, a Seiko 5 or one of those random sort of entry-level Seikos, and you want to spend, you know, anywhere from $3,000 to $1,000-ish, you can get a sweet dress watch from the Seiko Presage line, and obviously the...
A large majority of that collection is now going to be comprised of different cocktail times, all kinds of different Seiko cocktail times.
So the one in particular that I have it is the Green Dial.
It has some brass pieces, or not brass, it's kind of like a yellow gold sort of secondhand.
It's the SRPE15.
We'll talk about that one specifically, but the Seiko cocktail time, for people who aren't aware, originally came out in the 2010s.
And this is something that I learned, which is fascinating.
A few years back, it wasn't just the cocktail time that we knew it.
The Teiko Cocktail Time was really a collaboration between Seiko and a renowned bartender whose name I'm not going to say properly.
And so the idea was that they went to this bartender and they said, hey, you know, give us some ideas for watches.
And there were actually originally three watches that this bartender individual worked on.
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