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Post by dougbthom on Oct 9, 2014 5:20:19 GMT -8
What a find--Gorgeous. This looks like it wants to come to Canada!!!!
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Post by SeikoPsycho on Oct 9, 2014 8:42:05 GMT -8
Is that from that eb*y seller in brazil? I have doubts about his claims. Yes, it is and even though he says he's in Brazil, when I purchased some nos cases from him they were shipped out of Fla. They were nos Sample cases though. If you look closely you'll notice "Sample" marked on the case back in the photo above. |
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Post by jim1963 on Oct 9, 2014 11:38:28 GMT -8
Thanks for the kind words gents  The watch was not advertised as NOS and I bought it thinking it was just a nice example,the seller does have one up for sale that is described as NOS but with a hefty price tag £1000+ |
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Post by ninja01 on Oct 9, 2014 12:53:41 GMT -8
As I had mentioned Jim, That is a Beauty but I also had reservations about the case finish being original. I have also seen and refinished original cases that differ from yours with different case lines on the side as shown by Ninja01. ... That is what I had drawn my conclusions on about a possible refinish on your watch until I decided to check my old laptop which has an archive of photos of nos cases. .... Now I have come to the conclusion the there is more then one original case style and yours is NOS. The OEM finish on these varies from watch to watch, and from year to year. Sometimes the case is lightly brushed from the factory and the "ridges" on the sides are clearly visible. But other times these cases are heavily brushed from the factory, and the ridges disappear. It always made me wonder if these were finished by human hands on some kind of machine? Yeah, I've suspected that Seiko varied it's methods from year to year & maybe even market segment to market segment in the same year. In other places we've had the same kind of discussion about dials (early '60s) and speculated that Seiko used a variety of dial textures, etc. and that the examples we were seeing were legitmate and NOT re-dials. So, likely cases varied in terms of exact geometry and texturing over the years of production. I didn't compare the dates on all the ones shown, but it could be a valuable effort to check the production dates by serial# and see if there is a pattern; did some textures get used in certain years, for example?? Anyway, without offical (and likely internal) Seiko documentation of the production process, we likely will not have a 100% definitive answer, we'll have to assume good provenance on some of these {particularly in assuming that these supposed NOS items and other lightly worn items were indeed never "retouched" along the way} Sometimes owners & their heirs forget that some service was done and that, maybe the watch was "freshened up" along the way. |
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Post by solex on Oct 9, 2014 12:55:48 GMT -8
well done, wear it in good health
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The watch was not advertised as NOS and I bought it thinking it was just a nice example,the seller does have one up for sale that is described as NOS but with a hefty price tag £1000+ 
