Cazalea embarks on an ambitious ten-day quest to wear every watch in his extensive collection, ensuring none are neglected. This installment, "Seikos on Bracelets with Christmas Decor," showcases a diverse array of Seiko and Credor timepieces, offering readers a glimpse into his personal collecting journey and the unique stories behind each watch.
I'm on a quest to wear all my watches in 10 days, so I can be confident that none of them have been neglected throughout all 2018. I'm sure a question in your minds (as in mine) is: "Will he have 100 watches or not?"
This morning the theme will be "Seikos on Bracelets with Christmas Decor".
I started the morning with a cup of Darjeeling tea. There seem to be an infinite variety of tea gardens and preparations ...
#71 Seiko Sportura Kinetic Chronograph. This is a mecha-quartz type movement - a hybrid between quartz time-keeping, and mechanical time-measuring. A reassuring snap on the reset button will convince you it's not all quartz inside. Kinetic means it has a generator inside, instead of a battery, to provide power. This dates back to 1999-2000.
#72 is a Ltd Edition Kinetic Sportura Chronograph, known as SBCG003 with 9T82 movement.
It's got an enormous sapphire crystal covering the 5 subdials, a ceramic bezel to protect the case, and a 7-segment bracelet. It's 44.2 x 13.8mm for this 40th anniversary of Seiko Chronographs,.
Moving along, and outside, we have the opposite end of the spectrum, but still a Seiko on bracelet.
#73 Seiko 1520 movement (10 x 20mm) in men's stylish watch
#74 Grand Seiko manual wind movement on bracelet, SBGW001. I've had this for about 10 years!
#75 Seiko 5 with big Moon and "diamonds" For a BIG surprise regarding moon phase watches,
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I bought this watch early in my collecting days when I thought I could get every one of Seiko's watches that had a moonphase complication. I gave up after about 30 watches, and have sold almost all of them but this one.
This is the morning group, and it turned out that I have enough Seikos on bracelets to get through the entire day! Yay!
My wife is on a walk with a lady friend, which gives me time to wear & photograph all the rest of today's watches in the next few hours.
It's kind of cold this morning, even in the house, so I put on my only long-sleeve Hawaiian shirt and slipped on (another) new watch:
#76 Credor automatic 7-blue-hander, with hours, minutes, seconds, GMT, day, date and power reserve. I really like this watch and its cousin, the Credor Spring Drive Moon Phase (which I haven't shown you yet)
#77 Seiko Perpetual Calendar GMT, one of my favorite traveling watches. Even though it's winter, there's a recently-remodeled hummingbird nest outside my back porch.
Here's a better view of the dial, while I check to see if my battery is charged up enough to start one of the four useless old cars that are cluttering up my garage!
#78 Seiko Scuba Solar Diver 200M titanium. I see the hummingbird too, as I take this photo.
Here she is:
#79 The almost matching Seiko Scuba Diver 200M Quartz Chronograph in titanium
and some bees hard at work milking the agave flower shoot
and finally,
#80 Grand Seiko high-accuracy quartz on bracelet
Please come back for more ... I see I have enough Swiss watches to get through tomorrow, and then I might have to reveal my "secret stash".
Cheers,
Cazalea
