These are my daily desk divers, with an impostor lurking in the midst. I can forgive it though!
I am using this to show off my new to me SBBN015 - beauty!
SRP581 on rubber from CreationWatches
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my first blue
Here's a few of my favourites:
GS Spring Drive SBGA011 Titanium 'Snowflake':
A 'real' 6306-7001 Scubapro 450:
1st Generation 6105-8000:
A pristine 2nd generation 6105-8110:
Hard to find 6309-729B with original orange dial and gold coloured hands:
A 1983 Seiko 7A38-701B 'Vulcan':
A limited edition MM300 SBDX012:
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my daily :)
Lovely watch(es) - hope you both enjoy them!
Isn't the internet wonderful.
Tuesday night I get apocalyptically drunk.
Thursday lunchtime this arrives all the way from Singapore.
Some of you might have seen my thread about this watch a couple of months ago when I was given in by my FIL as it was broken. He bought it new more than 40 years ago and wore it weekly until this year. Anyway, fixed and now off the bracelet and onto this lovely calf skin, fine grained black leather.
I love it. The size is perfect and it's just so comfortable. I love the blue dial against the black strap.
I know there's a lot of love round these parts for the 7000-8000 series so thought I'd share it in the Seiko thread (apologies for my atrocious photography):
Fitted a new strap to my SARB065 and I am very happy with it
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*Hirsh sorry auto correct that I missed.
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just arrive
I am very pleased with this.
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That makes sense. I think the '65 is 40mm, which is at the top of my preferred range too. Although I do have a 46mm Glycine (does not get worn a lot by me). 38mm is my sweet spot. However I really want an SDGM003 next which I believe is a 40mm?
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So pleased with my latest SKX, been after this one for a while.
Still loving the turtle re-issue. Looks great on loads of straps too!
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My only Seiko but still my favourite out of the watches I have is a Kinetic Titanium Divers Watch. The model number being 5M43-0B30 / SKJ045P.
I have owned the watch for many years, having bought it from new in the Canary Islands as a present to myself in March 1999.
I have had it serviced by Seiko once when the watch stopped working (would not hold a charge) in February 2005 and they stung me for replacing the capacitor!
It has however worked faultlessly ever since. Whatever mysterious pixie dust they use for "Lumbrite" has the hands and numbers glow in the dark for hours.
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My Seiko's. Some of the modded one's I've now flipped.
That collection below is a hard act to follow... but, anyway, this 1974 (I think, could be ’84) 7009-3101 was a cheap, few-sheets-to-the-wind eBay purchase having been rather taken by the aged dial and hands. Binned the dreadful cheap aftermarket bracelet in favour of a braided NATO and it's worked out ok. Better than some of my other post-pint bids, at least:
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A gift from the early 80s
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Does this one count?? Gerlach 'Seikosha Tokkotai', a replica of the WWII Seikosha Divine wind Kamikaze pilots watch.
Tokkatai means to leave, and never return in Japanese.
The watch contains a Seiko NH35 auto, hackable movement. These were made for the Spanish 'Para Club Okies Seiko' in a limited edition of 150 . Mine is 36/150.
The postman was nice enough to deliver another 6306-7001 Scubapro 450 today,
January 1985 6309-7040. Only the insert and crystal (correct replacement) aren't original.
Been fully stripped, serviced and pressure tested by The Seiko Yoda. The DAL1BP arrived from Seiya at the same time - this is as close to the original strap the watch had when new as you can get.
Duncan reports it's running at around +2spd.
There's just something about these that keeps me coming back to them.
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