Very classy look, especially the blue dial over the black variant.
Does this mean the hunt for the Seiko is over now?
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Mike, I think the challenge is still on. It's all this thread's fault. There are such amazingly tasty watches in here - and I'm a bit of a watch man myself; Time has always fascinated me. I remember taking apart one of my grandpa's mantelpiece clocks once when I was very, very young, to the consternation of the entire household.
Springs, cogs, bits and pieces spread all over . . . I'll never forget the screaming.
Thank you for the kind attention - approval from you about a watch is like gold; you are the '
Cano' of chronos.
I also was a bit of a collector myself in my late teens, and then later on into my twenties, but - as you mentioned earlier on in this discussion - collecting watches can be an expensive hobby. I had lots of Timex, Citizen, Seiko, Omax, and so on - the cheaper lines - though I always wanted a Rado. Then I came across a Bulova Accutron ad featuring astronauts - and ever sense have been enamoured of Bulovas.
About the Accutron and Bulova: (from a wiki)
"Bulova's 'Accutron' watches, first sold in October 1960, use a 360 hertz tuning fork to drive a mechanical gear train to turn the hands. The inventor, Max Hetzel, was born in Basel, Switzerland, and joined the Bulova Watch Company of Bienne, Switzerland, in 1948. The tuning fork was powered by a one-transistor electronic oscillator circuit, so the Accutron qualifies as the first "Electronic watch". The true accutron, instead of ticking, had a faint, high pitch hum which came from the vibrating tuning fork.
The tuning fork movement was a horological revolution. Previously, electronically regulated timepieces were limited to some scientific instruments, being too large for a personal watch.
The Accutron was also the first wristwatch precise enough to qualify for U.S. Railroad Certification. A wristwatch regularly moves in all possible directions, as opposed to a pocket watch which spends the vast majority of its life either mostly vertical or mostly horizontal. Prior to the Accutron, that movement affected the precision of all wristwatches to a degree which precluded railroad certification, even for the best made and most expensive chronometer certified wristwatches.
The ability to legitimately claim the Accutron as the most precise wristwatch in existence was a tremendous boon for the company. Unfortunately for Bulova, in 1969 the Seiko Astron, the first mass produced quartz movement watch, hit store shelves. Because the quartz movement wristwatch was easier and cheaper to manufacture, Seiko was able to sell watches just as precise as an Accutron at a much lower cost."
I understand that Citizen have bought the company, now, right?
However, I have owned many Seikos, and always been impressed by their terrific ruggedness - especially the 21 Jewel Autos. I wear a lower line Bulova to work, but my work entails a lots of carpentry, painting, drywalling, etc, and my overalls, arms, and even face get quite a beating from the dust, grime, alkyd paints, etc, etc. The Bulova I wear to work still keeps ticking along merrily, but maybe I'm a little tired of the same face - and I don't want to bruise one of my higher-line Bulovas - so I thought it would be nice to have a Seiko 5 or 7 back on my wrist, and I know I can trust its ruggedness - as long as I find a true original. I have had my arms up to the elbows in motor oil at times playing around with my motorcyle, and just wiped down the Seiko of that time with a turps-soaked rag, and it still kept going.
The challenge I have given myself is to find one at around $100.00, and not more. I have already looked over some beauties, but they are all in the $150.00 - $250.00 mark.
I got the Marine Star for 50% off, so it was an offer I couldn't say no to - it looks absolutely stunning IRL - my candid shots do no justice to the real watch at all. I have worn it once in public already, and everybody immediately notices it and gasps out compliments - it's that kind of watch. I always wanted a Marine Star in my collection - so that's that now.
Talking about watches . . . I wonder if you are familiar with Romain Jerome's Moondust, and Titanic collection? I still can't get over them. Moondust on your wrist? The Moon Dust-DNA for insatnce is an automatic that features several space oddities - smelted steel from fragments of the Apollo XI spacecraft, strap made of fibres from an ISS space suit, and the dial is coated with authentic moon dust. Right.
Probably the perfect watch to wear while in the stands watching a Shuttle lift-off.
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