Actually had it since March but the previous owner had such diddy wrists I couldn't even nearly wear it. Had the spare links but not the bits for them, until Seiko UK came through a couple of weeks back (free, which was nice of them). Then a friend, also of this parish, fitted the links for me today.
It's a SCED065 Giugiaro “White Mountaineering”. Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro is a legend. Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta, Maserati Ghibli, BMW M1, DeLorean, VW Scirocco, Gordon-Keeble GT, are amongst 150 cars he designed, as well as many Nikon cameras and lots else. He did three watches for Seiko in the 80s (famously including the "Ripley", as it became known later).
He reprised his driver’s/rider’s watch design for them four years ago as Seiko wished to use it (in very limited numbers - 700 in fact) to celebrate Japanese men’s clothing store White Mountianeering’s anniversary. He changed the design quite a lot, particularly the colours. It’s a steel chrono in PVD.
The dial is turned six degrees off-centre and the whole face sits at an angle to make it easy to read without removing your hand from the wheel or handlebar. The bracelet, with it’s “reptilian” bulge is completely unique to the watch too. That’s why I needed Seiko to find some bits so Mark could add in some of the spare links.
The 700 pieces were only available in Japan.
Giugiaro’s other work includes guns for Beretta, the Molten basketball, the organ of Lausanne Cathedral (which has 7,000 pipes!), bikes for Ducati & MV Agusta, and lots else.
The guy I bought it from on eBay neglected to mention he has wrists like an anorexic eight year old, so I feel better about paying Ł120 for it!
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Originally Posted by FrontierGibberish
Actually had it since March but the previous owner had such diddy wrists I couldn't even nearly wear it. Had the spare links but not the bits for them, until Seiko UK came through a couple of weeks back (free, which was nice of them). Then a friend, also of this parish, fitted the links for me today.
