1963 SilverWave
A new acquisition received just today. Fully serviced 1963 Seikomatic SilverWave J12082 Mark 1 “Snowflake/Starburst”. Diameter is 37mm, Lug width of 18mm, with 11.5mm thickness. The vintage Seikomatic Silverwaves were powered by Cal 603 (renamed 6201), th...
Amazing! That First Pic 😍, Thank You 😊👍🙏
Put it on a nice leather strap and it would be a great dress watch.
That's a Tough One
An Awesome Watch like this needs a special strap, in the pic it looks lighter but reckon it'll be the right shade in natural light, I toned down the brightness from the one they posted. Also if they can do it with black stitching. Source: vild Hamburg ...
A truly lovely specimen and a historically significant one 👌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻💦
They restarted the line again in the 1970s if I recall correctly but then it was not nearly as avant-garde as this was at its time. I have one from the era 😊🤿 ...
Not sure this was a Genta design…
I believe he was more Credor focused at Seiko 🤷🏻♂️
Is the crown a winding stem
Or only for the inner bezel? My 1967 worldtime has a similar 4 o’clock stem with an automatic movement and no manual winding. The automatic movement was originally done to eliminate entirely the manual wind for water resistance. As I understand it, Rolex ...
So it does open to wind
Interesting. Originally the automatic movements where the only thing that wound the mainspring - that way the watch was always sealed. To wind these you must initially shake the rotor ...
Congratulations again, Rob, it looks Really good on your wrist !
Your passion for it and happiness with it really comes through in your photos and words !