Vintage Seiko Dress Watches: Collector Discussion

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I’ve always liked Seikos.

Initially one of the attractions was that they were reasonably priced - and I could afford them.

Although I have a few rarely worn divers languishing in my watch drawer(s) it’s primarily the dress watches I’m attracted to - date or no date, but not day - and all with a 36-38mm diameter and generally fairly slim and comfortable on my wrist.

I have a KS which I accept may be redialled, but it, and all my others are mostly well over fifty years old but, unlike some other makes, the cases and the dials (and generally the hands) all look pristine and run perfectly.

The more I collect, the more impressed I am and the more I wonder why other makes don’t seem to last as well.

And, apart from the KS, all of them were bought for well under £200.

So, respect to Seiko

I attach my favourites and hope I haven’t duplicated too many.

Robert

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Beautiful watches, thank your for sharing.
Love the first one 🥰. Which reference is it?
 
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Beautiful collection. And completely agree with your assessment. I recently picked up this Lord Marvel from the 60’s - still looks great and runs wonderfully. Very impressed. And relatively economical (although I did have to pay to get it here from Japan!).


 
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Beautiful watches, thank your for sharing.
Love the first one 🥰. Which reference is it?

Thanks 😀👍

The no date black dial is a 66-8050
The matching black dial & white dial with date are 6602-8050s. All manual and on eBay for around £150-200.
 
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I know about your passion for them. Thank you for the inspiration, I will have a closer look at them by now.
 
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I imagine that if I added the cost of them it still wouldn’t match up to a Rolex or a Speedy 😁
 
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I have a 66-8050 that I purchased form another OF member a couple years ago:

 
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Nice collection. I have several. I’ll post them as I rotate them through. My oldest one is this M55 Sea Lion from June, 1964. Cal 6201B. I serviced it a few years ago. New mainspring and new rotor bearing. Quite a nice running low beat movement.