Japan / Tokyo Trip December 2018

Greetings everyone.

This is a quick recount of my Japan trip and a super impromptu gtg with @bigsom and @sliceoftime_

Would like to give a special mention to @aap for his recommendations to walk around the cool vintage streets of Koenji (vintage clothes and bags) and the flea watch market (which I was unable to attend due to our itinerary) but it was still awesome!

This is my first trip down to Tokyo and boy was it fun.

Visited many many watch shops both modern and vintage ones; and there's a #barnfind story to be told too!

Visited the famous Jack Roads and tried on a few watches with @bigsom mostly a 16750 and some day dates. I tried on Som's super nice 2020 speedy too!

A 1501

Couple of 1803s

Some UGs

Soon after which we left and proceeded to meet @sliceoftime_ Kent for a quick gtg and coffee


Sorry about the cut off of your speedy @bigsom my tech skills are supbar. =3

It was really awesome meeting Som and Kent and finally putting faces to the names. I forgot to take a picture of all the handsome gents mentioned because we were being watch otakus for the most.

Last but not least Som and I walked past a pop up toy store and lo and behold there were some Seiko watches for sale. Quickly picked these two up for they were crazy cheap.


Also managed to get an IWC Calatrava 582 Cal from time anagram. Definitely paid a premium for this but I thought the price justified the premium.

Hope you guys enjoyed the post as much as we did catching up!!

Great pics and great times! Was a blast, looking forward to the next time 👍

Some pictures from Carese and other vintage watch shops.



Curious Curio

Looks like a fun trip!

Some great looking watches, very jealous.

Do you remember how much is the Cartier Santos Dumont in your picture?

I can imagine it was amazing trip! Went to Japan once, unfortunately I didn't look around for watch shops, but I notice almost all men wear watches!

Japan is a real fun place to shop for vintage watches! Always a joy to go vintage watch shopping. Sadly the watches are usually priced higher than usual. But if you manage to find the one watch that you were looking for, I say go for it.

Sorry just saw this! For rolex and all that Jack roads/ Broadway seems to be the place to go for those.

For military watches Curious Curio have a nice selection.

For seikos and everything else, mizutani at ueno is great. Ueno has some shops like satin doll which Som saw some nice pieces omega and rolex.

Hope it's helpful.

Cheer man, was a short fun trip. Catch up soon in Jakarta or Singapore. 😉

http://deadseconds.net/2018/02/01/used-watch-shopping-in-tokyo-part-3-ueno/

I used this as a guide. Hope it helps.

Some wonderful looking watches you got to see. Will have to go back one day. Japan has to be the country I enjoyed visiting the most. I spent 7 weeks visiting different cities. I have only been to 40 countries but I think it will take a lot to beat Japan for me.

Congrats man!

Sorry didn't see the alerts to your question 🙁

But yeah Miztuntani's store guy is really fluent in English. I didn't get anything there in the end but he was cool with me looking at some watches.

These are from Mizutani

@Skrv congratulations man, that 6117 looks AMAZING. Fantastic find!

this is so great! Go OF!

I think i need to plan a trip out to Japan soon...