Seiko 5 Day dial

[Established 1984]

I'm fairly new to the world of watches and just bought my first mechanical watch, a Seiko 5 model: SNK803K2, like below. One thing is confusing me, on the day dial there seems to be 14 segments! From 12 to about 2 each night it shows a different three letter word. I've only seen a few of them winding it forward so far, these being LUN, VAI and SAB. Can somebody explain what these mean to me.

[Revs_Addiction]

Could be completely wrong, but it sounds like you have a multi-lingual watch!!

LUN - Lunes / Lundi / Lunedi (Monday)
VAI - Got me there! Sure it wasn't 'VEN'?
SAB - Sabado / Samedi / Sabato (Saturday)

I have had a bottle and a bit of wine so could be talking the provervbial!

[Matt172]

it has an option to show spanish days instead of english

[Established 1984]

You guys might be right. It's a far-eastern ebay special so don't have a manual, could be there is a way to switch it to a second language. Also could have be Ven not Vai.

Thanks

[Matt172]

Established 1984 said:

could be there is a way to switch it to a second language.

that could be why you only see it during the early hours as it jumps between English and the other language

[Established 1984]

Matt172 said:

Established 1984 said:

could be there is a way to switch it to a second language.

that could be why you only see it during the early hours as it jumps between English and the other language

the early hours.... that'll be confussing when I'm drunk then

[blueST]

It is a second language option for the day. My Orange monster (same movement) has the option of English or French.

[sjg]

Yep, other language. I have a similar Seiko which says LUN / MAR / MIE / JUE / VIE / SAB / DOM on the alternate days. It has to click past the language you're not using to get to the next day! If you want the alternate language, just set it to one of those during normal daytime (ie. not when it's changing!). My new Citizen does the same, only it's got some kind of kanji writing on the alternates.

It's spanish btw - lunes, martes, miercoles, jeuves, viernes, sabado, domingo.

[sb-1]

sjg said:

Yep, other language. I have a similar Seiko which says LUN / MAR / MIE / JUE / VIE / SAB / DOM on the alternate days. It has to click past the language you're not using to get to the next day! If you want the alternate language, just set it to one of those during normal daytime (ie. not when it's changing!). My new Citizen does the same, only it's got some kind of kanji writing on the alternates.

It's spanish btw - lunes, martes, miercoles, jeuves, viernes, sabado, domingo.

you are right sir.

[dutchgray]

Most of the Seiko day dials are English and Spanish that you'd get here or off ebay, but you can also get English and Roman numeral, English and Arabic and finally English and Japanese that I have seen, I expect there is probably others as well.

[Stefan Tapp]

I have exactly the same watch purchased from Singapore and mine is the same regarding the date, when setting it via the crown you simply select English or Spanish and it will ensure the correct language is used on subsequent days.

For the money it's a great watch, I paid £35 including delivery brand new.

Stef

[ShadownINja]

dutchgray said:

Most of the Seiko day dials are English and Spanish that you'd get here or off ebay, but you can also get English and Roman numeral, English and Arabic and finally English and Japanese that I have seen, I expect there is probably others as well.

French as on my Seiko 5.