New arrival - amazing Seiko 5
Discussion
Doofus said:
What's the significance of the '5'?
It's to do with 5 design 'features' that Seiko wanted to include in a watch range that was reasonably priced, with the features being what they deemed useful functionality i.e. great for the average person to wear day-to-day. Seiko 5 refers to:
1. Diaflex (unbreakable mainspring)
2. Diashock (Seiko's shock resistant design, equivalent to the Swiss "Incabloc" or "Kif," etc.)
3. Automatic winding
4. Date/date indication
5. Water resistant
Hoofy said:
There's a way of using the sun with a 12 hour watch face so once you find north, you can align the internal bezel. That said, if you're using the sun as a compass guide, it isn't very accurate so I have no idea why you'd use the sub-readings on the compass dial. 
Right, but I don't a rotating bezel to help me do it - you just point the hour hand at the sun, halfway round the dial from there to noon is South.tertius said:
Hoofy said:
There's a way of using the sun with a 12 hour watch face so once you find north, you can align the internal bezel. That said, if you're using the sun as a compass guide, it isn't very accurate so I have no idea why you'd use the sub-readings on the compass dial.
Right, but I don't a rotating bezel to help me do it - you just point the hour hand at the sun, halfway round the dial from there to noon is South.LukeBird said:
It's to do with 5 design 'features' that Seiko wanted to include in a watch range that was reasonably priced, with the features being what they deemed useful functionality i.e. great for the average person to wear day-to-day.
Seiko 5 refers to:
1. Diaflex (unbreakable mainspring)
2. Diashock (Seiko's shock resistant design, equivalent to the Swiss "Incabloc" or "Kif," etc.)
3. Automatic winding
4. Date/date indication
5. Water resistant
Thanks for that. As long as there's a reason, I'm happy Seiko 5 refers to:
1. Diaflex (unbreakable mainspring)
2. Diashock (Seiko's shock resistant design, equivalent to the Swiss "Incabloc" or "Kif," etc.)
3. Automatic winding
4. Date/date indication
5. Water resistant
Creation Watches had these on offer last week.... I managed to get one before they sold out... It was my 'Bargain of the week'
http://www.creationwatches.com/products/seiko-5-au...
http://www.creationwatches.com/products/seiko-5-au...
Updated to say I just got another, equally, if not more, amazing Seiko ... this one a Seiko Stargate, SKZ327:
The quality of this watch is absolutely amazing, in particular the depth of the dial and the heft of the bracelet are very impressive. It is a pretty big watch, certainly bigger than most I wear, but the curved case is incredibly comfortable - it has easily become my most worn watch since it arrived.
I am continually blown away by the watches that Seiko can produce for relatively little money. They certainly make some shockers, but they also produce some real gems.
The quality of this watch is absolutely amazing, in particular the depth of the dial and the heft of the bracelet are very impressive. It is a pretty big watch, certainly bigger than most I wear, but the curved case is incredibly comfortable - it has easily become my most worn watch since it arrived.
I am continually blown away by the watches that Seiko can produce for relatively little money. They certainly make some shockers, but they also produce some real gems.
krusty said:
Creation Watches had these on offer last week.... I managed to get one before they sold out... It was my 'Bargain of the week'
http://www.creationwatches.com/products/seiko-5-au...
They were back in stock this week.http://www.creationwatches.com/products/seiko-5-au...
I may have 'accidentally' purchased one
Waiting for it to arrive. At the office...
NeMiSiS said:
the compass inner wheel turns when you wear the watch, it was also pointed out that the compass actually has no purpose whatsoever.
So once set - let's say that North is at 3 and you're heading West - after a bit of walking it will have moved? But you'll remember that it was at 3. Except that won't help you at all, because you don't know whether you've walked in a straight line.When I first saw those I assumed that the inner ring was actually magnetic... but I suppose that would interfere with the mechanism.
Having said that... instead of a balance weight swinging around, couldn't you have a ring inside the case with a (smaller) magnetised weight, affecting a magnetised spring? The rest of the movement would need to be made from non-magnetic material, but that's feasible.
According to Donald de Carle in "Complicated Watches" the "direction finding" bezel is used by pointing the hour hand at the sun and adjusting the bezel to indicate north with a compass. To find north later you just point the hour hand at the sun. Though if you had a compass in the first place...
Or alternatively one of these
(not my pic)
Or alternatively one of these
(not my pic)
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