Having seen many photo's of this particulay SUS I didn't realise that it had applied markers, I thought
they were just stamped/painted.
A nice surprise
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Great model and I have kept the blue dial version! Please appreciate this model since it is the only 200m rated SUS with perpetual and smoothly rotating bezel with the sole lume pip!!! I call it my 'rolex explorer homage' hahaha! I have owned about 10 SUS models, including martback's 4S12 black dial model and the 4S15 ti Scuba pale lemon dial, the other orange SUS you showed and many others...perfect size for smaller wrists! haha!
Great model and I have kept the blue dial version! Please appreciate this model since it is the only 200m rated SUS with perpetual and smoothly rotating bezelwith the sole lume pip!!! I call it my 'rolex explorer homage' hahaha! I have owned about 10 SUS models, including martback's 4S12 black dial model and the 4S15 ti Scuba pale lemon dial, the other orange SUS you showed and many others...perfect size for smaller wrists! haha!
yes, indeed, it does rotate one way to the left. Yours is then just sticky! it is a 120 clik turn...
so just take a cloth use it to better grab the bezel...it will start to move a bit, keeping twisting it to the left...and eventually it will loosen up. Obviously it has never been turned and just sticky! I had this happen to several seiko bezels.....
Nice watches Derek! The SUS is a very special line of Seiko, in my opinion. Like Bauhaus but in a Seiko way! Clean, simple, legible, "functional" as opposed to artificially "stylish". Be proud!
I should have just accepted that the bezel doesn't turn rather than decide to take the movement out to give the whole case and bezel a proper clean, as I cannot figure out how to remove the crown and stem
Now this is where you guys come in and say it is simple, you just push this and out comes the crown and stem but which part do I push to release it ?
I have already removed the battery (longer than three minutes) so I am gonna have to go through the complex regime of re-setting it, so I ain't going to give up.
Here is a photo I have just taken...
and a bit closer............
I can see someone else has been in here before by the marks, but not a problem............The first person to say "Push where it says push" will earn no Brownie points, cause I can't find anything to push where it says push.
Now this could be me being stupid (don't answer that), but has anyone taken a crown and stem out of one these movements who could shed some light???
I picked up this watch recently. It's a 8306-9030 from 1966. I found it interesting where the patina settled in.... it kinda highlights just the "Seikomatic-R Diashock 30 jewels" script just below the hands. The case has some significant pitting from corrosion where the case back screws down...
Questions concerning how early February through (edit: May 1969 with thanks to rfortson for the May 1969 photo update) 6139-6000 (“Pouge”) SpeedTimer dials look compared to the later dials motivated me to re-post a small research project I did a while back on another forum. This relates only to...
Limited to 250 of each circa 2010. Carbon fibre case, sapphire,
perpetual calendar chronograph.
Now if I could find the one with the white pearl case, life would be perfect.
Kurt
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