Originally Posted by markrlondon
Hi mate....
Yeah mate, it is the Seiko Nooka.
Quite a decent size too... and comes with a couple of different colours of glass... white and black.
The piece was in collaboration / commissioned by Matthew Waldman in 1999. They ended their partnership, and Waldman still produces / sells watches under the Nooka name.
Greg.
Last edited by gregory; 18th April 2014 at 20:37.
I have four. Each with a completely different movement and purpose, which wasn't the intent, but somehow ended up as a neat little collection.
I'm a bit of a Seiko nut and have been since I was a kid and had a Seiko digital in 1981.
Gotta love Seiko's. One is from 1979 & the other 2009
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Here's some of mine
Divers
Dress, GMT, chronos
Various dress
Here's some of mine
Divers
Dress, GMT, chronos
Various dress
FAB COLLECTION divers ive had and now gone sadly
Can you tell us a bit more about the one on the grey NATO? It bears more than a passing resemblance to one that was apparently issued by the Iranians (link from MWR).Here's some of mine
http://www.mwrforum.net/forums/showt...hlight=iranian
Here's my only Seiko at the moment, one given out to the Omani armed forces to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the accession of the Sultan so falling also into the category of Middle Eastern oddities. It reminds me that I need to take some better photos.
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In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
You're correct in thinking it's related, this one is a 7025-8099 which replaced the earlier 7005-8052. The 7005-8140 was based on the 8052 but as far as I know that reference is only found on the military marked examples. They were pseudo divers really only being water resistant to 70m and they're often called the poor mans 62mas due to the resemblance to Seiko's first proper diver.
Thanks - when I get a minute I think I'll fine tune some Ebay searches.
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
Some beautiful pics on here of lovely watches. Sadly my photography skills are not up to much, so I specialise in video demonstrations of the functions of my watches. Here are my other Seikos.
0634 5019
C159 5000
A354
S××t. I'm going to have to buy another watch. Loving this thread. I've been eyeing up the skx007 for months now, I think I'll have to pull the trigger.
Good grief!Here's some of mine
Divers
Dress, GMT, chronos
Various dress
Anyone know the model ref of the fluted one with the bracelet in the dress box?
Reminds me if a Bulova Seville or Datejust.
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Here's mine....
is there really a 7001?
Well I've added a few since my last post in this thread, so here's the current Seiko collection:
6105 8110 (1971):
6306 7001 (1978):
(currently away for service)
7002 7009 (1993):
SRP581 (2014):
All those now give company to my trusty GS (SBGM023):
I also had a 6309 7040 (1977) but that's sadly just been sold to make way for the 6306:
Last edited by Thorien; 17th December 2014 at 11:37.
New arrival and a quick wrist shot before it goes off for some spa treatment...
Very nice.New arrival and a quick wrist shot before it goes off for some spa treatment...
Last edited by P9CLY; 29th November 2017 at 18:42.
The ‘cheer myself up’ Seiko 5 Sports mod back today.
Very summery!
This is REALLY a piece of cake! Beautiful!
Jo
Many thanks!
SDGA005:
6139 6002:
M158:
Going a slightly different direction...
Seiko's first calculator watch the C153-5007 from the first year of production in *edit* 1977. For some reason the display looks muddy in that pic, but in reality it's great. Light still works too. :) The button presses have a feeling of real quality. Thermocompensated quartz engine too so pretty accurate.
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Oh.... lovely. Back when I got my Casio CA-901 in 1981ish, that Seiko was the uber-posh and, as I recall, more expensive alternative.
The only downside of the Seiko was that the keyboard didn't look as usable with fingers as the CA-901's keyboard. If I remember correctly the Seiko was supplied with a stylus to operate the little keys.
I wore my CA-901 to school for years and I still have it. It's sitting next to me now waiting for a battery change.
Yea they were the pricier of the two alright. I have a vague memory that the metal cased Citizen with the buttons going around the circular case was even more expensive.
Good memory M. :) Yep they came with a stylus and I have that too.The only downside of the Seiko was that the keyboard didn't look as usable with fingers as the CA-901's keyboard. If I remember correctly the Seiko was supplied with a stylus to operate the little keys.
The Seiko above is(my bad memory :s) a November 77 one, so an early example. My dad bought it for Xmas of that year, but it stopped working after about a year. The dad was not a happy camper about this so went back to shop and off it went back to Seiko. Months passed and my dad was getting more irked about it, wrote letters and the like, with a veiled threat of bodily insertion of said watch... :D This dragged on. Anyway the upshot was he was given a replacement, not of the original model, but the updated one, the Seiko C359 - 5000 which was smaller and had an alarm and near unusable buttons without a pen(the first one you can use just about with a thumbnail). He also got the original dead one back. Thanks to the interwebs I sourced a NOS movement for it last year and...
He didn't like the new smaller one and since I near wet myself just looking at it I ended up with it. Result for me. :) Though funny enough I was kinda jealous of the Casio kids, because theirs looked more "modern" or something. I wore it for many a year and wore it out. The bracelet fell apart and one day it stopped working and ended up in a drawer dead as a dodo, until last year when I dug it out, stripped it and cleaned it, with NOS seals and crystal.
Still looking for the right strap.
Cool. :) "That" school watch tends to linger long in the heart alright.I wore my CA-901 to school for years and I still have it. It's sitting next to me now waiting for a battery change.
Oh blimey, I had forgotten about that one. :-)
Ah yes, it is this model that I remember for that timeframe.
It wonderful to be able to resurrect these old machines.
In pre-Internet days it would never have been feasible to find the parts (or, for that matter, readily gain access to knowledge about many things).
New to me today
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