No, this is not the tale of a noble Japanese warrior that goes out into the world looking for a mug. It's just a watch story
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In 2008, when I got seriously into watches, I convinced myself that I needed an automatic Seiko. I wanted something sportive and reliable, so naturally it had to be a diver. Of course I looked at the most talked-about watch of the century, the Monster, but (puts on flame suit) I think that that watch looks terrible. So I then looked at the second most talked-about watch, the Sumo. But then there was the narrow bracelet issue that I explained on another post, and back then the Sumo fell short for me just because of the bracelet.
So what did I get? A blue Sammy, of course
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. Beautiful watch, light, accurate (it was doing something like +6 or 7 seconds IIRC) and cool. I was extremely happy with it and without a doubt it was one of my favorite watches. But then, one day before Christmas, I got mugged and my loved SBDA003 was no more 
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I know we're not supposed to get attached to material things - like my dad says, if money can buy it, it's cheap - but the hole it left in my watch box was really hurting every time I looked at my watches. So by January I started hunting high and low for a replacement, putting WTB adds in most of the big forums and scoring daily the sales section of all the big forums. Until March I didn't find any one up for grabs, but finally I found two at the same time. One was from a guy in the US, but he "ran from the deal" when we're still talking, but the second one, from Greece, worked out, and two weeks ago my new Samurai finally arrived ;D .
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These are the photos that I took of my first Sammy. Since I got a new watch, of course I had to take new pics O0 .
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So there you have it. I got my grail and my watch box is complete again .
In 2008, when I got seriously into watches, I convinced myself that I needed an automatic Seiko. I wanted something sportive and reliable, so naturally it had to be a diver. Of course I looked at the most talked-about watch of the century, the Monster, but (puts on flame suit) I think that that watch looks terrible. So I then looked at the second most talked-about watch, the Sumo. But then there was the narrow bracelet issue that I explained on another post, and back then the Sumo fell short for me just because of the bracelet.
So what did I get? A blue Sammy, of course
.I know we're not supposed to get attached to material things - like my dad says, if money can buy it, it's cheap - but the hole it left in my watch box was really hurting every time I looked at my watches. So by January I started hunting high and low for a replacement, putting WTB adds in most of the big forums and scoring daily the sales section of all the big forums. Until March I didn't find any one up for grabs, but finally I found two at the same time. One was from a guy in the US, but he "ran from the deal" when we're still talking, but the second one, from Greece, worked out, and two weeks ago my new Samurai finally arrived ;D .
So there you have it. I got my grail and my watch box is complete again
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