Woohoo, I feel so royal when I wear a gold crown! ^L^ >>>
Mar 14, 2015 17:56:34 GMT -8
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Post by Thomas on Mar 14, 2015 17:56:34 GMT -8
A vintage Seiko Crown that is!
This poor package took quite a beating getting here, worst on the other side. Holes torn through the bag and all kinds of colored rub marks.
I hope the seller packed it well!
Okay! This is my second purchase from this seller, and I get free Tupperware each time!
Well packaged too!
And there is my new "headgear", a 1961 Seiko Crown, with a Seikosha, 21 jewel, 560 caliber, Diashock, hand-wind movement.
Let's get a closer look shall we?
The front half is in beautiful condition, especially the sun-burst textured dial, with beautiful graceful hands and an interesting outer hour ring.
Hee-hee, here is the crown of the Crown...
The "common" side...
And the back side.
A bit of damage and corrosion back here, but the sellers movement picture looked clean and unmolested, so I made the purchase.
Well, such a beautiful dial deserved a much more appropriate strap, so I pulled one of my "Havana brown" cowrocodile straps from a recent DeBeers order along with a polished gold deployant.
Check out the "Big Image", it really is a beautiful watch! 
Much better don't you think?
And when taking those pictures it seemed like the watch "wore" very large!
I know they didn't make them big in 1961, but to my eye it looked like a 40 mm watch!
Well, the calipers popped that bubble, I guess the "no bezel" design fools the eye!
I think I got my 72 dollars worth!
Thanks for looking! - Thomas
