Originally Posted by mariod
Some Seiko divers...
Nice.
Here's a few Seiko's
Monster
Neo Monster
Tuna Monster LE
007J (still not convinced by them)
Caesar
Elnix (something a little bit different)
I've only got two just now: an skx399 and a 7009 seiko 5.
I've got to say I love them both, the 7009 even more now its on a new rally strap.
Some of mine...past and present.
Oldest one...Seiko Pepsi/Pogue...
009 on a Will Jean sharkmesh...
OM...
Sea Urchin...
Yellow 7T32...
SKZ251 Yellow monster...
The mighty 'Spork'...
...and finally, a rare Lorus 'Mickey Mouse' automatic that houses a Seiko movement.
Group photo
This vintage beauty arrived on Thursday.
Great vintage watch, and a remarkable coincidence that the date is showing today...ie. the first of March....................though not the correct year........well...you can't have everything, can you?
That's because I only made the video of it this morning!
Nice one!....is it showing the correct year?.....I've had a few 'Bombay Sapphires', you understand........
Looking great for 50 years old.
Very nice.
This combo today:
Stargate 495 on Hirsch carbon, looks nice IMHO, although I prefer this one on a brown leather, such as this one:
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Loving this one. On the wrist today so it can play with sunlight.
2nd on my Grail list :) MM300
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.
I remember gazing at that Seiko calculator watch in out local Argos - I remember it clear as day, in a leatherette box with a matching silver pen with an end like a propelling pencil to press the buttons. That was my grail back then - and all NY mates at school had the casio calculator watches with a kind of numbers game on them. Everyone had Casio digitals back then - I remember a cacophany of hourly chimes at every school assembly!
Ah yes, I used to enjoy playing that game. It was quite fun.
I was rather pleased becayse was the only person at my school with a calculator watch.
arrived yesterday from westy
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.
I love those Seikos BB. IMHO a true modern classic that isn't a copy/homage to an earlier age. It's another reason I like Seiko. They take design risks.arrived yesterday from westy
My two. Please excuse phone pics.
I beg to differ - clearly a blatant homage to this original piece by design powerhouse Invicta:
That is shocking ^
New SNDF87 courtesy of Yorkshire Watches who were great
I like the retro vibe of that, very nice.That is shocking ^
New SNDF87 courtesy of Yorkshire Watches who were great
I've got a Gulf/LeMans and Tudor blue/orange style NATO on the way which should suit it well.
Can't wait to see it on those Nato's, going to look fantastic on the gulf/Lemans I bet.
Me too as I have one incoming
Today
Gah! Strange how some details are exactly copied and others are quite different. Clearly they didn't want to shell out to copy the case more precisely.I beg to differ - clearly a blatant homage to this original piece by design powerhouse Invicta:
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).
my Seiko PMM modded by Rob van Herpt
Very nice - is it a 007 based mod?
my Seiko PMM modded by Rob van Herpt
Yuk. Where the original is a work of genius, this just looks wrong.I beg to differ - clearly a blatant homage to this original piece by design powerhouse Invicta:
Not sure if it's a keeper yet- quite nice though
Not only that, it can't have cost enough less to justify buying a third rate copy. I get buying an Invicta sub homage if you want the look on the cheap, given the price difference, but an OM? You'd have to have some pretty weird Invicta based brand loyalty to have bought that one...
yes
This arrived today.Have just got home from work and opened its packaging.I will get some better pictures in natural light but I am loving this already.
I imagine it sells mainly to people who haven't seen the original.
SNKL09 on TSS 'Monza 2' strap.
This is back on my wrist today; not been out for a while
I like that.
Thank you.
I'm most frustrated that I can't find the original bracelet; I took it off and put it on a NATO when it became too tight. Since then I've found the spare links, which very sensibly were in the original box with paperwork and sales receipt.
Not tracked down a Seiko replacement either. It wears beautifully on this old Heuer bracelet, but that cost me more than the whole Seiko did.
Hopefully it'll be on rubber in the next couple of days so I'll take an updated shot then.
It's a pity about the bracelet, but it looks well on the Heuer one. Box and papers too? Nice.
I reckon this works - excellent strap for £12 delivered :-)
SARB on a Saturday here....
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