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I just spent a chunk of my afternoon watching all of these videos. I absolutely love Seiko watch design from the seventies. Some think they're funky or retro, but I think they're straight beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing your collection. I love all the funky 70's design. I have a small collection of about 5 watches in similar styles. I love these watches and they are rather sentimental for me. My dad used to wear a 6119-5400 for years that I'm still lucky enough to have. Growing up I was fascinated with his watch and would play with it every chance I got, So whenever I see these funky designs they always bring a smile to my face. Again thanks for sharing.
Mate, your vids have been a great help with fixing my beloved seikos, mostly divers, but the square dx in blue is awesome on wrist. Guess what i just bought? Never wouldve considered it before watching these 3 vids. Thanks mike, opened my mind.
It's been real nice going through these videos. One thing's for sure, so many good choices everywhere over here in the Philippines for vintage Seiko watches lol. Most if not every watch tech here knows how to service a Seiko. Cool that you have a friend from here sending you some good pieces.
Night Swimming wow than you very much for this comment! I certainly have a thing for Seiko! Soon I will have to film my digital watch collection as that is also full of Seikos.
I like 👍 the second watch over, up front (from left to right). It looks so much like 👍 a Lorus watch I bought around mid 1984. My Lorus had a blue dial, luminous hands and dial markers, day/date feature, and a glass crystal. It had a black rubber wristband. Your friend, Jeff.
Thank you so much for watching, all three takes some time to get through! I will hope to be filming my digital watches soon before I get back to filming watch repair videos.
Thank you Mike a great trilogy of Seiko history I have a 6309 5060 which was my father in laws time piece no idea the value but a gift to pass on to my son
I really like the 6119-5440 as the dial reminds me of Star Wars going into light speed with the stars as the indices stretching and giving a cool effect. Thanks for your videos! The 70s sure had groovy far out designs that are still remarkable today as they stand out and make you take notice. It is awesome that you can bring them back from poor condition to the great condition they are now. Oh and I did watch all 3 videos. I particularly liked the brilliant electric blue from the 2nd video.
I am going to add to my collection of Raketa vintage watches with the handwinding 2609 ha movements. They do bizarre TV shaped watches with unusual dials. They are cheap, reliable and easy to regulate and fix. I prefer handwinding over automatics that don't handwind like the Shakeos you are showing there.
I found a Seiko Bell-Matic 4006-7010 at an estate sale for 3 bob! It's a 27 jeweler from 1968 and runs like a champ. All it needed was a tidy up and a different band. The band that was on it was a broken Speidel, so I was watching your videos to see what Seiko bands are out there; although I didn't see any of the rice or coffin link types. I've got a citizen band on it now that looks well enough.
+William Bruder Hello, thank you for your comment what a find you have there. Every envious but in a nice way as I rarely get lucky deals like this. I think they are 19mm lugs? If so on eBay there are “aftermarket “ Seiko bracelets. From memory a Belmatic looks like this one. Hope it helps. rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254246084174
Great video. I did stay till the end. I was wondering how many weird watches seiko made over the years? I mean, there's the flight master or the mile marker. I'm sure there must be more unique ones. Do you know of a video that show cases them?
No idea. Seiko has 10,000s of models really and ones for different continents . I find 70s watches in Europe that are not in Japan and vice versa then there is South Asia which again have some interesting designs you don’t see elsewhere.
Love these. Happened upon them on ebay and found the genre spoke to me as the designer took risks releasing some of these watches to the public. Seems like watches like Nixon have taken some of the ideas and incorporated them into their modern surf oriented watches.
Money doesn't dictate having style and taste. Also, money cannot buy a sense of style and taste. I would go for these over most watches priced in the thousands. They've been tested by time.
Great Collection, hard to find a favorite, because they are all very nice watches, but if I should pick one it would be the 7019-7210. I'm actually got one like that myselves, With a green dial, really nice watch.
Anywhere I can find them. There is no magic source. Just have to google the reference or find the part number first. Often it’s eBay that comes up with them
That 7006-5000 is a stunner! Good luck with the case back. In fact the last few are all great, really interesting how they all show that 70s vibe in a different way. Cool collection!
Hi mike,new to your channel (subscribed)I have a seiko bell matic,everything works,however,the day does not align correctly in the box, I have taken it to a jewellers and they say it’s probably one of the teeth have broken off,and also say that parts are obsolete and can’t be repaired,would you say this is true in your experience? Kind regards,Dean
JonTheComputerDoctor I have bought a heavy duty professional caseback opener for diver watches. That for sure will open the back up. It’s not the force required it’s the holding of the case to counteract the force applied
Your 6119-5460 is very interesting. I have my fathers 6106-5529 which is a DX model from 73. Same case, same dial (but all gold) but different movement. Mine is all original and the bracelet is folded/pressed and your looks to be solid links. So odd, the 5 model had a higher jewel count movement and a solid bracelet, yet the DX line was positioned above the 5's in terms of pricing
There are many versions of this watch. I have seen gold ones that dont look as well built and others that do. Seiko seemed to put many different movements in the same cases. The DX line I would not consider that different from a 5. the only difference is DX had 6106 movements which had hacking. Hacking is a simple lever addition to stop the escape when the crown was pulled. 6106 is a modified version of the 6119.
How can you tell what year of manufacture by just looking at the first number of the serial number. Example if the number starts with a 3 how do you know if it’s a 1973 or is it a 1983. Thank you I’ve enjoyed your channel
Experience of knowing the styles but also you can use a site like this which will also sometimes give you two dates in different decades but you can also find that out from when movements were discontinued etc www.watchsleuth.com/seikodatefinder/
Hi just watched them all , I have a few (3!) 5s . Good videos lovely collection . My favourite is a blue 1972 with a slight problem the clasp is really long and doesn't sit well on my wrist , is it possible to bend them without caus issues? The bracelet is really unusual and I don't want to change it ! Regards Will
@@MyRetroWatches it's the too inner bits that fold , much too long , I've a fairly slim wrist and it digs in . I've tried eBay for just a clasp because I want to keep the bracelet that came with the watch , hard to source tho , someone on here recommended bending it which seems drastic! Regards Will
Sorry I dont know anything about them. From a quick Google search I can see that they were 4004 quartz movement. I don't get involved with quartz analog that much.
Hello sir I have a 1973 seiko 5 actus ss 23j all original Japan watch shutter green dial actus 5 band one of the best watches I have ever kept I love it I have many all A+ like new watches loved ur posts if ur up to looking at a few of my watches I have belmatic 1967 27j working a 1967 seikomatic p 33j working 1977 belmatic gold sunburst dial working seiko black knight diver rare now s7s36 any how sorry for the run am a fan sorry for my affliction to seiko it can be a curse lol
what's funny with these watches is that they are more beautiful than new models but they are more obsolete than the new ones. i mean obsolete in terms WR and quality bands. they really were made for "use it and throw it when it's dead" people. new models look horrible but they are tougher and good WR. i would've loved to see old Seiko 5 watches with good WR and better bands. they simply would be the best. even more when you can find some with 6119 movement. i'd like to see Seiko make audacious design like back then again. i feel like we had more choices back then.
It seems like you are very loyal to Seiko, but in this period, other Japanese watch company were also competing with Seiko and many beautiful watches. You may have a look if you already haven’t .
Oh and I had the green face with the jewel crystal. I see many of these gem are now in the hands of collectors like yourself. Well I’m glad bc these gems should be appreciated and taken care of. Btw. When did you start collecting bc back in the late 90s, I couldn’t find anyone collecting these vintage watches and many thought I was out of my mind.
So back then, these were mass made and common? I winder if Seiko made close amounts of these watches or did they various amounts depending on the model. Are there still models that you are trying to find that you don’t have and if so, why are those models more rare?
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I love you gold plated seiko watch....please my father searching for this...can you give me...we will pay you for this.
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I just spent a chunk of my afternoon watching all of these videos. I absolutely love Seiko watch design from the seventies. Some think they're funky or retro, but I think they're straight beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.
I "made it" all the way through! Nice collection, thanks for sharing!!
Thanks very much.
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing your collection. I love all the funky 70's design. I have a small collection of about 5 watches in similar styles. I love these watches and they are rather sentimental for me. My dad used to wear a 6119-5400 for years that I'm still lucky enough to have. Growing up I was fascinated with his watch and would play with it every chance I got, So whenever I see these funky designs they always bring a smile to my face. Again thanks for sharing.
Mate, your vids have been a great help with fixing my beloved seikos, mostly divers, but the square dx in blue is awesome on wrist. Guess what i just bought? Never wouldve considered it before watching these 3 vids. Thanks mike, opened my mind.
It's been real nice going through these videos. One thing's for sure, so many good choices everywhere over here in the Philippines for vintage Seiko watches lol. Most if not every watch tech here knows how to service a Seiko. Cool that you have a friend from here sending you some good pieces.
Very well done, What a great selection. Well my favorite is.......ALL OF THEM, EVERY SINGLE ONE.
Al Aranowitz thank you , I have a similar opinion but there are a few that get worn more than others.
Nice watch collection
Love your vintage watches…. Subscribed. Watching from the Philippines 🇵🇭
Welcome aboard!
Just watched all three and I’m now looking for your digitals! 😂
You are definitely right about blue dials! They always win :-)
I have just bought a Seiko 6119-5400 which dates from December 1971.
You have a great collection.
JonTheComputerDoctor I have quite a few of those that are not even in this video. Classic tv watch. You will enjoy it for sure
Your passion and talent for working with watches is inspirational. Thank you for sharing. I am a lover of vintage seiko as well.
Night Swimming wow than you very much for this comment! I certainly have a thing for Seiko! Soon I will have to film my digital watch collection as that is also full of Seikos.
I really like the hexagon watches. Great job. Thank you for putting then on the wrist.
I like 👍 the second watch over, up front (from left to right). It looks so much like 👍 a Lorus watch I bought around mid 1984. My Lorus had a blue dial, luminous hands and dial markers, day/date feature, and a glass crystal. It had a black rubber wristband. Your friend, Jeff.
Watched all three videos one after another and as always a enjoy watching your videos always really good
Awesome watches man! Love Seiko
The green one you got on ebay, I got one in my collection in blue with an original leather bracelet. 😉
I have a seiko watch, seems vintage, got confused what exact decade from, thanks for the inspiration. More power.
Love them all Mike! , black 7019 is my favourite! Great collection. Adrian🍀🍀
Thank you, that one is cool there is one actually listed for sale here speedtimerkollektion.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=49608
I've watched 1, 2 & 3 of the Seiko Series. Good on Ya.
Thank you so much for watching, all three takes some time to get through! I will hope to be filming my digital watches soon before I get back to filming watch repair videos.
I’m a blue dial fan as well, I wonder if it’s because it contrasts so well with steel?
Thank you Mike a great trilogy of Seiko history I have a 6309 5060 which was my father in laws time piece no idea the value but a gift to pass on to my son
Value unfortunately would not be massive. possibly around £50-60 but Seiko are on the rise. No matter an heirloom is important no matter what.
I watched the whole 3 parts, you got a very nice collection men ! 👍
Thank you for showing, I have seen loads on eBay but the crystal seems to be glued on with rough edges , are they original Seiko? Regards
Epa amigo te felicito por tu colecion de seiko
Gracias. Tengo más Seiko. ¡Este vídeo tiene muchos años!
I really like the 6119-5440 as the dial reminds me of Star Wars going into light speed with the stars as the indices stretching and giving a cool effect. Thanks for your videos! The 70s sure had groovy far out designs that are still remarkable today as they stand out and make you take notice. It is awesome that you can bring them back from poor condition to the great condition they are now. Oh and I did watch all 3 videos. I particularly liked the brilliant electric blue from the 2nd video.
Hi there, how much did you buy one of those in average especially the square type ?
I am going to add to my collection of Raketa vintage watches with the handwinding 2609 ha movements. They do bizarre TV shaped watches with unusual dials. They are cheap, reliable and easy to regulate and fix.
I prefer handwinding over automatics that don't handwind like the Shakeos you are showing there.
Fantastic collection Mike. Those green dial watches suite you I think, they tend to stand out, especially the 6119 5460 very nice.
David Hammond Thank you David that one is a particular favourite
Like I said you have a lot of beautiful watches and I think that you should do more of these videos and show us even more beautiful watches!!!
I still have all my digital collection to film and some assorted watches that I have lying around
@@MyRetroWatches cool I am looking forward to seeing them very soon and thank you for sharing your analog collection of watches!!!
I found a Seiko Bell-Matic 4006-7010 at an estate sale for 3 bob! It's a 27 jeweler from 1968 and runs like a champ. All it needed was a tidy up and a different band. The band that was on it was a broken Speidel, so I was watching your videos to see what Seiko bands are out there; although I didn't see any of the rice or coffin link types. I've got a citizen band on it now that looks well enough.
+William Bruder Hello, thank you for your comment what a find you have there. Every envious but in a nice way as I rarely get lucky deals like this. I think they are 19mm lugs? If so on eBay there are “aftermarket “ Seiko bracelets.
From memory a Belmatic looks like this one. Hope it helps.
rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254246084174
What's the difference between Seiko 5 in 11:33 and Seiko 5 actus in 13:13?
Nothing other than the Actus range was before 5s I believe.
Nice Watches!!
Great video. I did stay till the end. I was wondering how many weird watches seiko made over the years? I mean, there's the flight master or the mile marker. I'm sure there must be more unique ones. Do you know of a video that show cases them?
No idea. Seiko has 10,000s of models really and ones for different continents . I find 70s watches in Europe that are not in Japan and vice versa then there is South Asia which again have some interesting designs you don’t see elsewhere.
Love these. Happened upon them on ebay and found the genre spoke to me as the designer took risks releasing some of these watches to the public. Seems like watches like Nixon have taken some of the ideas and incorporated them into their modern surf oriented watches.
Of course the seikos are superior quality and materials.
Money doesn't dictate having style and taste. Also, money cannot buy a sense of style and taste. I would go for these over most watches priced in the thousands. They've been tested by time.
Great Collection, hard to find a favorite, because they are all very nice watches, but if I should pick one it would be the 7019-7210. I'm actually got one like that myselves, With a green dial, really nice watch.
Ole Johan Pålsrud Hello and thank you. I could never pick a favourite. There is no logic to which one I choose each day too.
May i know where do u source the crystal glass. Thank u
Anywhere I can find them. There is no magic source. Just have to google the reference or find the part number first. Often it’s eBay that comes up with them
That 7006-5000 is a stunner! Good luck with the case back. In fact the last few are all great, really interesting how they all show that 70s vibe in a different way. Cool collection!
Do you have a seiko 5 railway white on white 24 hr
hi do you know anything about seiko 7a28 6020 or how much it is worth today i own this watch cant seem to find much info about it on the net
Love your watch collection I want to get a selko in my birth year 76 retro how can I get the modles that were made that year can you help
No idea. Remember that Seiko make / made 1000s models
I watched the whole thing! 😎
The Silver Dubber Bravo thank you so much. Hope you enjoyed it.
I literally just subscribed to your channel like 30 mins ago and now you're posting new content? Nice.
Haha thank you. Purely coincidence. Welcome to the channel though. Hope you enjoy the content.
Hi mike,new to your channel (subscribed)I have a seiko bell matic,everything works,however,the day does not align correctly in the box, I have taken it to a jewellers and they say it’s probably one of the teeth have broken off,and also say that parts are obsolete and can’t be repaired,would you say this is true in your experience? Kind regards,Dean
Does anyone know how i can open up my 6309-5030? I tried a lot, but i could't figure out how it works?
Hi,
Ref your 7006-5000 try supergluing a nut onto the case back to get it off, once released use acetone to remove the nut.
JonTheComputerDoctor I have bought a heavy duty professional caseback opener for diver watches. That for sure will open the back up. It’s not the force required it’s the holding of the case to counteract the force applied
@@MyRetroWatches Understood will be interesting to see what you find within.
Your 6119-5460 is very interesting. I have my fathers 6106-5529 which is a DX model from 73. Same case, same dial (but all gold) but different movement. Mine is all original and the bracelet is folded/pressed and your looks to be solid links. So odd, the 5 model had a higher jewel count movement and a solid bracelet, yet the DX line was positioned above the 5's in terms of pricing
There are many versions of this watch. I have seen gold ones that dont look as well built and others that do. Seiko seemed to put many different movements in the same cases. The DX line I would not consider that different from a 5. the only difference is DX had 6106 movements which had hacking. Hacking is a simple lever addition to stop the escape when the crown was pulled. 6106 is a modified version of the 6119.
Are the all automatic winders or kinetic?
They are all automatic
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Where could I buy a men’s seiko watch from November 1986?
How can you tell what year of manufacture by just looking at the first number of the serial number. Example if the number starts with a 3 how do you know if it’s a 1973 or is it a 1983. Thank you I’ve enjoyed your channel
Experience of knowing the styles but also you can use a site like this which will also sometimes give you two dates in different decades but you can also find that out from when movements were discontinued etc
www.watchsleuth.com/seikodatefinder/
Hi just watched them all , I have a few (3!) 5s . Good videos lovely collection . My favourite is a blue 1972 with a slight problem the clasp is really long and doesn't sit well on my wrist , is it possible to bend them without caus issues? The bracelet is really unusual and I don't want to change it ! Regards Will
If it’s a folding clasp then you can buy new ones. Equally if the clasp is too long surely that means the bracelet is. Can’t you remove a few links?
@@MyRetroWatches it's the too inner bits that fold , much too long , I've a fairly slim wrist and it digs in . I've tried eBay for just a clasp because I want to keep the bracelet that came with the watch , hard to source tho , someone on here recommended bending it which seems drastic! Regards Will
I watched the whole thing.
Well I’ve watched them all, and there cool bro, so much more interesting then telly, if we had one! Do some more MB! quick!
Ian Margetts the bench may be back in action next week, I have to get through s backlog before I can film again .
My Retro Watches maybe back. “Log” is not the word.....😝😆
What can you tell me about a Seiko Motorcraft watch ? Thank You.
Sorry I dont know anything about them. From a quick Google search I can see that they were 4004 quartz movement. I don't get involved with quartz analog that much.
@@MyRetroWatches Thank You.
Thanks 😊
Cara vc tem relógios pra caramba
Hello sir I have a 1973 seiko 5 actus ss 23j all original Japan watch shutter green dial actus 5 band one of the best watches I have ever kept I love it I have many all A+ like new watches loved ur posts if ur up to looking at a few of my watches I have belmatic 1967 27j working a 1967 seikomatic p 33j working 1977 belmatic gold sunburst dial working seiko black knight diver rare now s7s36 any how sorry for the run am a fan sorry for my affliction to seiko it can be a curse lol
16:40 these 2 watches were my faves here (6309-5130 and 7019-5110)
what's funny with these watches is that they are more beautiful than new models but they are more obsolete than the new ones. i mean obsolete in terms WR and quality bands. they really were made for "use it and throw it when it's dead" people. new models look horrible but they are tougher and good WR. i would've loved to see old Seiko 5 watches with good WR and better bands. they simply would be the best. even more when you can find some with 6119 movement. i'd like to see Seiko make audacious design like back then again. i feel like we had more choices back then.
There's something about watches that makes me feel safe if that makes sense
All Seiko.... you got any non Seiko?
Yes plenty! My site has most of my collection www.myretrowatches.co.uk
It seems like you are very loyal to Seiko, but in this period, other Japanese watch company were also competing with Seiko and many beautiful watches.
You may have a look if you already haven’t .
Oh and I had the green face with the jewel crystal. I see many of these gem are now in the hands of collectors like yourself. Well I’m glad bc these gems should be appreciated and taken care of.
Btw. When did you start collecting bc back in the late 90s, I couldn’t find anyone collecting these vintage watches and many thought I was out of my mind.
Do you go as far to replace the face with a after market or do you try to buy them with clean faces?
So back then, these were mass made and common? I winder if Seiko made close amounts of these watches or did they various amounts depending on the model.
Are there still models that you are trying to find that you don’t have and if so, why are those models more rare?
14:34 It's not 'shouldn't of' it's 'shouldn't have.' Why does everyone say 'of?'
Are you sure ok brother? It’s really not that deep lol
S ok
Still with a Hardlex chrystal on those two divers. Shame on you Seiko.