{"id":4583,"date":"2020-09-08T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T09:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2020-11-19T13:10:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T12:10:47","slug":"whos-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/en\/whos-the-king","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s the King ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The King Seiko range has been discontined in the seventies but the watch collectors didn&#8217;t forget it. At that time, it was the Grand Seiko competitor (you know, there were two distinct Seiko factories in the 60&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s, with their own models).<br>The first models were purely mechanical (44KS &amp; 45 KS), then the automatic   52KS and 56KS have been introduced. The very late models were called &#8220;Vanac&#8221; and were quite funky, with strange cases and facetted crystals.<br>We have at the moment the pleasure to sell a 1968 King Seiko !<br><\/p>\n\n\n<div data-block-name=\"woocommerce\/handpicked-products\" data-edit-mode=\"false\" data-products=\"[4574]\" class=\"wc-block-grid wp-block-handpicked-products wp-block-woocommerce-handpicked-products wc-block-handpicked-products has-3-columns has-multiple-rows\"><ul class=\"wc-block-grid__products\"><li class=\"wc-block-grid__product\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/en\/shop\/king-seiko-44ks-4402-8000-1968\" class=\"wc-block-grid__product-link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wc-block-grid__product-onsale\">\n\t\t\t<span aria-hidden=\"true\">Sale<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Product on sale<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wc-block-grid__product-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_2954-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-woocommerce_thumbnail size-woocommerce_thumbnail\" alt=\"King Seiko KSK 44KS 4402-8000, 1968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_2954-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_2954-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_2954-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_2954-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_2954-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_2954-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_2954-444x444.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_2954.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wc-block-grid__product-title\">King Seiko KSK 44KS 4402-8000, 1968<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wc-block-grid__product-price price\"><del aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-amount amount\"><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-currencySymbol\" dir=\"auto\">&euro;<\/span>&nbsp;1 ,150.00<\/span><\/del> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Original price was: &euro;&nbsp;1 ,150.00.<\/span><ins aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-amount amount\"><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-currencySymbol\" dir=\"auto\">&euro;<\/span>&nbsp;990.00<\/span><\/ins><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Current price is: &euro;&nbsp;990.00.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-button wc-block-grid__product-add-to-cart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/en\/shop\/king-seiko-44ks-4402-8000-1968\" aria-label=\"Read more about &ldquo;King Seiko KSK 44KS 4402-8000, 1968&rdquo;\" data-quantity=\"1\" data-product_id=\"4574\" data-product_sku=\"\" data-price=\"990\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"wp-block-button__link  add_to_cart_button\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King Seiko range has been discontined in the seventies but the watch collectors didn&#8217;t forget it. At that time, it was the Grand Seiko competitor (you know, there were two distinct Seiko factories in the 60&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s, with their own models).The first models were purely mechanical (44KS &amp; 45 KS), then the automatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-listed-watches"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Who&#039;s the King ? | Watch &amp; Vintage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.watchandvintage.fr\/en\/whos-the-king\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who&#039;s the King ? | Watch &amp; Vintage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The King Seiko range has been discontined in the seventies but the watch collectors didn&#8217;t forget it. 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