Watches

GS worldwide is very quiet about sales numbers.

https://www.watchgecko.com/blogs/magazine/the-most-popular-grand-seiko-watches-according-to-grand-seiko

If someone were so inclined, search r/watches and r/grandseiko and count hits for the 211 Snowflake, and the 413 Shunbun, it’d be interesting to see the numbers year on year.

I had spent the better part of a year looking at Spring Drives, trying to narrow it down, and was feeling overwhelmed. I’d thrown out the automatics and the hi-beats, I’d set my sights on a Spring Drive as my first GS. Flake? Omiwatari? Birch? I couldn’t decide. AD was very patient with me throughout that time.

Web pics of the 413 are awful, I’d discounted that watch early on… until I saw it in the case. And I asked the AD, how is it that I’d never seen that watch before?

AD said that the first 3-ish years when it was US-only, he was selling them before they hit the display case, and almost exclusively to foreigners.

January, when I got mine, my AD said it was the first time they’d ever gotten two, and were able to put one on display.

80 watches in the case, yet the 413 stood out to me.
It is a completely different watch in person. All GS watches are better in person. But the 413, to me, just stands out.
The only thing to tell people is to go visit it in person.