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WSRUW: What Seiko Are You Wearing Today?
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Jim W
·Here's one of the first Professional dive watches from Seiko, predating the 6159-7000/1 that followed in 1968...
A very hard to find 6215-7000 from April 1967:
It turned up on ebay a couple of years ago looking like this.....
Then after a full movement service carried out by Duncan Hewitt (The Watch Bloke) and a replacement Bezel insert from Yobokies:
A very hard to find 6215-7000 from April 1967:
It turned up on ebay a couple of years ago looking like this.....
Then after a full movement service carried out by Duncan Hewitt (The Watch Bloke) and a replacement Bezel insert from Yobokies:
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pongster
·^ nice.
What’s the use of the reverse numbering on the bezel?
I would suppose it becomes a countdown timer of sorts. Am not a diver so i have no idea if it has use on a dive.
What’s the use of the reverse numbering on the bezel?
I would suppose it becomes a countdown timer of sorts. Am not a diver so i have no idea if it has use on a dive.
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SCTexas
·Some seiko 6309
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·It's just a different way of doing the same thing I suppose. I've never really seen the point of a countdown bezel, and it seems nor do many other people as it seems to have just about disappeared in the wild.
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R3D9
·It took me a while to find one in the condition I wanted, but I got lucky and stumbled upon this one on Yahoo Japan with 22 minutes remaining.
The listing pics were pretty terrible, but just clear enough to give me a tonne if hope. Here’s what arrived: a 6306-7001 from December of ‘78 🥰
The listing pics were pretty terrible, but just clear enough to give me a tonne if hope. Here’s what arrived: a 6306-7001 from December of ‘78 🥰
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Jim W
·That is a lovely 6306. I especially like the creamy patina of the lume. I have several 6306’s with the same creamy lume. Also, 6306’s often seem to have a “crisper” Tsunami than similar 6309’s.
Overall, very nice indeed.
Overall, very nice indeed.
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R3D9
·That is a lovely 6306. I especially like the creamy patina of the lume. I have several 6306’s with the same creamy lume. Also, 6306’s often seem to have a “crisper” Tsunami than similar 6309’s.
Overall, very nice indeed.
Thanks Jim! I agree about the lume and it’s what I was after for my 6306. It makes for a great contrasting one-two combo with my minty 6309:
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Dsloan
·It's just a different way of doing the same thing I suppose. I've never really seen the point of a countdown bezel, and it seems nor do many other people as it seems to have just about disappeared in the wild.
I have a couple watches with a countdown bezel. It's not useful for diving, but is great if you need to set a stop time for a task. For example, I work in video production, and often use a countdown to monitor how much time I have to finish up a portion of the shoot, or to know when I need to circle back to my crew to hand off new memory cards. That sort of thing.
What I really like is the combination of a countdown bezel with a chronograph function. Then I can count up or down depending on the task.
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michael22
·It took me a while to find one in the condition I wanted, but I got lucky and stumbled upon this one on Yahoo Japan with 22 minutes remaining.
The listing pics were pretty terrible, but just clear enough to give me a tonne if hope. Here’s what arrived: a 6306-7001 from December of ‘78 🥰
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michael22
·Very strange. almost as if the tsunami is deposited onto a machined surface.
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