The very first Seiko watch that I bought (in 1973), this 7019-5000, which I still have....
https://i.imgur.com/f6CDVfL.jpg
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The very first Seiko watch that I bought (in 1973), this 7019-5000, which I still have....
https://i.imgur.com/f6CDVfL.jpg
Latest Seiko acquisition, this 4823-5017 from March 1976.......
https://i.imgur.com/9mQd1pu.jpg
Makes a nice pair with it's brother from October 1976.....
https://i.imgur.com/GHIYkss.jpg
Strange...
Don't think that i have shown this one before......7s36-5000 'Superior' from 1998...
https://i.imgur.com/jcTKEJi.jpg
Strange, my iPhone 8 updated to iOS 14.2 last week.....it would appear that iOS14.2.1 is only different in that it has bug fixes that are only needed on iPhone 12.......so not so much an update, more...
Something a bit different from me today, this 7S36-5000 Superior....
https://i.imgur.com/t1xhQfx.jpg
I started teaching my son PC building about 25 years ago....(I'd been doing it for 6 or 7 years already at that time). He is now an 'IT Professional' working for an American Stockmarket Trading...
Another 'TST' here (based on a 6309-7290)
https://i.imgur.com/rWC6T7r.jpg
My 'slightly' modified 6309-7290.......
https://i.imgur.com/ileL8XF.jpg
A few 7123's (and a 7122..)........
https://i.imgur.com/BnlVrGL.jpg
Some 7546's......
https://i.imgur.com/iCzNoUH.jpg
And a 7803-8000, from 1976 that, from it's style and thickness (5.3mm!),...
I have a Grand Quartz with the same dial but with the stainless case.......
https://i.imgur.com/jr35Bx9.jpg
And another couple of Seikos with similar dials....
This 0903 4004 from 1975............
A few 7123 quartz ones from around 1980....
https://i.imgur.com/m4nYfws.jpg
Or for something completely different, this rather nice wall clock from the late 1970's.......
My Talis with ESA 9157 Swissonic movement....Just fitted a NOS circuit to get it going...
https://i.imgur.com/JOpSBDh.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/35VfhKi.jpg
And on the Timegrapher, as yet...
My EL-330 electro mechanical watch from April 1972......
https://i.imgur.com/azde77Y.jpg
I have been wearing varifocal glasses now for nearly 15 years. I tried bi-focals prior to that and they were awful.
I can only say do NOT get the cheap option varifocal lenses, but pay the extra...
My first Seiko, bought by me new in 1973 (7019-5000)....
https://i.imgur.com/k8DZgYU.jpg
And a quartz 3803-7040 from a year earlier, that I could not have been able to afford at the time, it...
A 4823-5017 3003 export watch from 1976........Love the textured dial:love_heart:
https://i.imgur.com/mly03jK.jpg
Funny you should say that.........
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A bit of history HERE
Its a Grand Quartz 4843-8100 from 1977, JDM catalogue page for 1977, showing it:-
https://i.imgur.com/ykzipM6.jpg
Many thanks, scrubs up well for a 41 year old watch doesn't it?:eagerness: Mind you it was 100,000 Yen in 1977.....:biggrin-new:
While a similar dial, yours is the later twin quartz watch, mine being a 1977 4843 based single quartz one.
I got mine, as a non working, bare watch head from a seller in Japan for the gloriously...
Latest acquisition....
https://i.imgur.com/mVh2My8.jpg
Well its a 'World Time Clock' Model No QZ877B from the late 1970's, early 1980's They do crop up occasionally on ebay, I bought mine as a non runner and 'fixed' it...:eagerness:
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I do have a few non quartz Seiko's a couple here:-
A 6119-8430
https://i.imgur.com/hqrV9hb.jpg
And of course my 6309 TST
https://i.imgur.com/S1AMENI.jpg
Does this count?...
Well I moved out of London to Ware in Hertfordshire just over 40 years ago and still rate the place as somewhere in the UK that is really nice to live. Twenty five miles or so due north of London,...