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Seiko SKA725P1 Kinetic Military Watch

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Mikey Bautista
Seiko SKA725P1 Kinetic Military Watch

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Military watches are a great way to step up your wrist game by pairing classic designs with rugged construction—these watches take their cue from the field, after all. Seiko knows this better than most, with their SNK line of military watches one of the most popular icons of the style.

So how do you improve on a great watch? By taking everything to the next level, of course. This is Seiko's SKA725P1, which takes the original SNK's aesthetics and adds some muscle behind the movement. In addition to using automatic movement, the SKA725P1 adds Seiko's Kinetic technology to the mix, letting you use your normal arm movement to power the watch's power reserve. This means your watch is still ticking on Monday when you forget to wear or wind it over the weekend.

The SKA725P1 also got a bump up in size to a 42mm diameter and 12mm case thickness, improving its depth resistance to 100 meters. The increased case size also means a larger face, giving better legibility on the watch's numbers, indices, and 24-hour indicators. Time to upgrade your military style—pick up Seiko's new Kinetic from Amazon at the link below.

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Mikey Bautista

Director of Everyday Carry Operations


About the Author
Mikey Bautista is an everyday carry (EDC) expert who has been working with the EverydayCarry.com team for nearly a decade, starting with an interest in EDC as a hobby and ending up as a writer for the site in 2014. Through the years, he’s led the site in editorial content and writing about products across every category, from knives to bags to flashlights and everything in between, as well as discovering, bringing exposure, and building bridges with many brands in the industry. Today, he is the site's Director of Everyday Carry Operations, leading the editorial team and managing day-to-day operations.

He has lived through many personal and professional lives, spending nearly a decade in the workforce management industry, a minor career in gaming, and has lent a hand with entrepreneurial efforts back home in the Philippines. He has also been an active participant and helped build a number of significant social communities online, both for EDC and his other hobbies.

Mikey has been at the cusp of gaming, technology, and the internet since the ‘90s and continues to lend his experience, expertise, and authority to all his pursuits. When not online, in a game, or watching movies, you'll find him in the gym, speedrunning his next hobby, or talking at length about EDC with anyone willing to listen.

Discussion (4 total)

Daniel Hoble ·
Very nice and clean.
blueumbrella ·
It is very nice, but really needs a sapphire crystal face. I like the very clean look, and detail.
Blackthorn ·
I love Seiko watches. This one looks great, nice and clean.
I think you might be mixing up your self-powered technologies. The SNK809 in the first link is a fully-automatic movement, meaning that it uses springs and gears, which in this case is a 7S26 movement—a non-hacking, non-hand winding movement.

The SKA725P1 is a 5M82 kinetic movement, which is a quartz movement that utilizes a battery for power. However a kinetic movement depends on wrist motion to recharge the battery, much like a Citizen EcoDrive uses sunlight to top of the battery.

Automatic and Kinetic movements are very different.