That's one NICE 6138-7000, AJ!
The cursor ring is one of my reproductions. These took me a year and a month of development to get them exactly like the originals save the color. I chose to go clear so that no one could ever misrepresent my repros as genuine. I am the only source of these hard to find parts.
I had a handful of the real deal a couple years ago and put them on eBay one by one. The auctions were no reserve and and the last one went for $285.00. That is what inspired me to reproduce them in modern acrylic at a far more reasonable cost.
By way of a slightly ironic twist, the watch on its way to you from Croatia is the one other 6138 model using an acrylic crystal. 6138-8020/8021 use the 350T02ANSO, 35mm across and the largest Seiko wrist watch crystal in plastic. Their stopwatches and clocks, of course, use even bigger acrylics.
The cursor ring is one of my reproductions. These took me a year and a month of development to get them exactly like the originals save the color. I chose to go clear so that no one could ever misrepresent my repros as genuine. I am the only source of these hard to find parts.
I had a handful of the real deal a couple years ago and put them on eBay one by one. The auctions were no reserve and and the last one went for $285.00. That is what inspired me to reproduce them in modern acrylic at a far more reasonable cost.
By way of a slightly ironic twist, the watch on its way to you from Croatia is the one other 6138 model using an acrylic crystal. 6138-8020/8021 use the 350T02ANSO, 35mm across and the largest Seiko wrist watch crystal in plastic. Their stopwatches and clocks, of course, use even bigger acrylics.
