These are tool watches, beautiful, reliable, inexpensive, they have in-house movements, history. But they have almost no economic status symbol maybe because of Seiko marketing.
Check out the history of the Marine Master 1000m:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOXwDeiHdYk&t=389s
My Marine Master 1000 gold Tuna, sat in the watch case for 2 years until I rescue it with deep discount.