What watch do you wear?

pearl2291 said:
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i have that seiko 6139...great watch...sorry no close up pics of it, but it's top left hand corner....in this case pic....
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pearl2291 said:
WOW Amazing group of Chronos. All look great. I am mostly a Seiko guy to keep in my comfort zone for pricing and have a few 6139/6138's. Really like the Seiko Monaco in your collection.
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thank you. those are the first 3 mass made seiko chrono movements. wanted one of each for the collection. don't wear those anymore just collect them.

I love some seikos myself.....have more seiko watches but that's just the case the 6319 like yours was in.

your 6139 looks much nicer than mine. one of the space lab astronauts wore that model watch, differnet dial color though, on his own into space. so it has some space history which is kinda neat.

 
jbmonkey said:
no idear what calendar it is other than some Asian one. as this watch was for an Asian market. it's got English days and these that follow the English days. there is only 14 symbols on the wheel. 7 English days and these symbols behind them. I just set them as they fall on these dates wheels with different characters. this symbol was behind the Friday.
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They are Kanji characters for the days of the week. Actually, they are abbreviations of Kanji characters for the days of the week, but I'm not going all the way there today. Kanji abbreviations are a little byway among the Han characters of written Japanese, Han being everything borrowed from written Chinese.

Kanji abbreviations are the second language on Seiko's and Citizen's Japan Domestic Model watches, and just to make things a little harder for us crazy foreigners, their typography is a little different. This should match the Kanji on your Citizen watch.

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Piso Mojado said:
They are Kanji characters for the days of the week. Actually, they are abbreviations of Kanji characters for the days of the week, but I'm not going all the way there today. Kanji abbreviations are a little byway among the Han characters of written Japanese, Han being everything borrowed from written Chinese.

Kanji abbreviations are the second language on Seiko's and Citizen's Japan Domestic Model watches, and just to make things a little harder for us crazy foreigners, their typography is a little different. This should match the Kanji on your Citizen watch.

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yep that's the Friday on my watch. good info thanks. I'm weird that if it has Asian calendars I use those just cause.
 
For summer Seiko SRPA-83 Tuna. Right now a Seiko 481 with silver dial. Both no longer made I hear. Wish I had a Doxa but at around $2500 to $3 Gs I have to be a bit practical! More cash for knives.
 
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Sometimes, like with knives, you don’t need a flashy one. You just need one that does the job.
This old mil spec Marathon has replaced my Rolex’s and another one like it has been around the world with me. I still have the Marathon watch that the tritium vials blew off the face during a 60 MPH head collision I was in back in January of 2019. I need to get that one repaired. The bill will be less than it was for the repairs to my hide.
 
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