I'm A Seiko Fanatic - Part 3

[mingus2112]

Well. . .After hitting up the Seiko sample sale in Mahwah, NJ today I'm proud to say I only bought one watch! I really shouldn't be buying ANY watches right now, but I got a "free pass" from the wife because she knows these don't come around that often. There are so many other watches (reps, vintage Seikos, other vintages) that i'd like to buy, but resisting buying a watch at this sale wouldn't have made any of those others possible!

Anyhow, I only found one watch that I couldn't resist. I kind of wanted to get a perpetual calendar, but all of the ones they had were of the cheap variety. The one I got was the SKA389. It's a kinetic, with a dive bezel, but I wouldn't go diving with it. (although it does say 100M on the dial)

That's not my picture. that's from the web. There are better pictures of it, but this one really shows how black the watch is. In most of the higher resolution pictures I found it looked almost like a gun metal color. This watch is BLACK.

So far I really love it, but as any of you that have Seiko Kinetics knows, it's a real ***** to get the power reserve up. The watch shows that it's running low on reserve by ticking in twos. . .ticktick. . .ticktick. . .ticktick. This one keeps heading back to that. So i've got a lot of shaking to do!

All in all it was a great purchase for $150. I had to call Pecty back at the office to see if he wanted one. . .and of course he did. . .so I picked one up for him as welll.

Here's a wrist shot with my crappy camera phone:

-James

[Toadtorrent]

That's a nice one. There's no reason you shouldn't take it diving!!

[hackR]

hey ming...heard someone's selling a nice Seiko 100m titanium watch here: a watch specially meant for ming!

great member to deal with and an all-around great guy...

check it out...mention you know me and i'm sure he'll work with you...

nice watch in the post, btw...

R-