Spencer awesome 👏🏼 video. I love your passion for Seiko watches . I own 6 Seiko watches myself and absolutely love my Seiko watches . I also own 3 Orient Watches . Two Orient Mforce an a Orient Triton. My Seiko watches are sbdc033 Sumo, skx009 , Padi Turtle, Pepsi Sea Urchin, Seiko Atlas skz209j1 and the new Seiko SZSB016.
I have an SKX173 I bought just before they were discontinued that I intended to wear in rotation for a couple of days. 5 weeks later I'm still wearing it on a black nato and I can't seem to want to take it off!
Hey Spencer - I have an SKX that had been my only watch for years, only after watching your video did I realize that it is now 10 years old! I am wondering - how long will you feel safe swimming with and using your SKX before you start treating it like a vintage piece?
Thank you for your video on the Seiko SKX. This is why it is for many watch aficionados one of the most famous divers and it is also one of the most affordable automatic divers out there.
One of my favorite places to go in the mountains is Glenwood Springs. It's nice that you also showed Hanging Lake. A nice mountain hike if you are up to it. Great watches also. Thank you
Another informative vid. Thanks Spencer! Love the roman numerals on that 6309 mech! Do you know in what market those roman day wheels were sold? Steve C
I do like the jubilee-bracelet of the skx007. In fact I can't wear the skx on the rubber strap because of the crown guards which then tends to dig into my wrist, a major flaw of the skx's case in my opinion. With the bracelet I don't have that problem and it's very comfortable to wear, I don't get why so many people complain about it,
Hi Spencer, great video review of an icon. I have a SKX009 and a SKX007. I notice the older models have a 4 o'clock crown vs the SKX's 3:45 crown. Why did Seiko change it from 4 to 3:45? Thank you.
I have a hunch on this subject. I bet it was so that the same date wheel could be used for both 3 o'clock and "3:45" crowns. The 31 numerals on a date wheel won't line up if you rotate the crown 1/12th of a rotation, as you would need to if using the same movement in both 3 and 4o'clock crown cases. So you would normally have to used a different date wheel for a 4o'clock crown. To get around this, you could design all the cases destined to house your movement so that 1 date wheel works for all of them, as Daini did with the 70xx and 7S series. We can calculate out an example for 3 vs "3:45" crowns. A dial face has 12 divisions for the hour, while a date wheel has 31 divisions for the day. Needless to say, 12 is not a factor of 31 (in fact, 31 is a prime number), so if you insist on putting the crown right on an hour position, it will only work for one position. But what's really important in this example is keeping the date wheel lined up with the date window on the dial, not keeping the crown lined up with the hour markers. So we need to calculate what intervals we can rotate the crown by and still keep the date wheel lined up. The answer is obviously by increments of 1 day, which is 1/31st of a full rotation. But what does that mean in terms of hours on the dial? 12 hours / 31 days = 0.3871 hrs/day Assuming our base position is 3o'clock, this means that the crown will end up plus or minus some multiple of 0.3871 hours away from 3, which is definitely not going to be a very round number. So how many increments is the crown of a 7S26 shifted from 3 o'clock? Base + Increment x Multiple = Position (hours) or Position (hr:min) 3 + 0.3871 x 1 = 3.3871 or 3:28.23 3 + 0.3871 x 2 = 3.7741 or 3:46.45 Looks like 2 increments (2 days of the date wheel) matches up pretty well with our "3:45" crown, which is actually more like 3:46.5, or about 3.77 hours.
Chester Snapdragon McPhisticuff you are exactly correct. One less part to manufacture and also speeds up production during assembly because you don’t need to install a separate date wheel for the different crown positions. You need only replace the day wheel, which, on these movements only requires removing a small c-clip and swapping in whatever day wheel you need.
I just bought an SKX173 from a small town AD that looks to have been neglected NOS for 15 years. It has a Singapore dial, A movement, and an Aug 2004 serial, and came with box and papers, and a warranty card the seller filled out in front of me... the tag and box had the wrong model number though (SKX175) which makes me a bit concerned it may not be true NOS. Everything looks to be the appropriate age, though, including the charming 7S26-only dive watch manual. Anything I should look out for on a watch that old with questionable newness? I imagine it doesn’t have much wear, but some things age no matter what. It was a little slow but I was able to correct that by nudging the regulator. I don’t have a timegrapher so I don’t know what the amplitude is like. I have an SKX007 I bought last year which I upgraded with an NH36 but this has pretty much replaced it as my daily wear. I can’t bring myself to stop wearing the 173 despite knowing I won’t dare swap the movement on it like I did with the 007. I prefer the dial design and I even like the old style rubber strap it came on.
Great story, Spencer! Just wondered. Do you know when seiko stopped producing the 7s26 A-movements? I believe they vere introduced in 1996? The reason me wondering is that my skx009 has a A-movement with a serialnumber starting with "66". I bought the watch used in 2014, so either is it from 2006, or 1996. What do you think?
The one in the right is kind of "second line of Seiko" once it doesnt have written on it "21 jewels made in Japan" most of these are made in Singapore, Philippines, etc but not in Japan :/
The millions they made you're bound to find the odd great one, although the fact that they stop very quickly if not worn, they are not going to wear out. They have good looks, but with the lack of Sapphire and lack of handwinding I always gave them a miss. I use my head. If I used my heart I probably would have bought one. My favourite daily edc is a Sea-gull Ocean Star which has Sapphire and handwinding and suits my wrist at 44mm and 13mm high with its curved lugs. I am brave to come on here and put my view out. I await the flak from the Seiko fans out there.
Great video, still have and wear my original 7548-700F I got in 1986 for my 16th birthday. Wearing it now as I watch this video.
That must've been really satisfying to get back the same watch you sold years ago. Great video!
Spencer awesome 👏🏼 video. I love your passion for Seiko watches . I own 6 Seiko watches myself and absolutely love my Seiko watches . I also own 3 Orient Watches . Two Orient Mforce an a Orient Triton. My Seiko watches are sbdc033 Sumo, skx009 , Padi Turtle, Pepsi Sea Urchin, Seiko Atlas skz209j1 and the new Seiko SZSB016.
I have an SKX173 I bought just before they were discontinued that I intended to wear in rotation for a couple of days. 5 weeks later I'm still wearing it on a black nato and I can't seem to want to take it off!
Great watch. I have a skx173 since 2014 and I'm so happy with it.
Hey Spencer - I have an SKX that had been my only watch for years, only after watching your video did I realize that it is now 10 years old! I am wondering - how long will you feel safe swimming with and using your SKX before you start treating it like a vintage piece?
Enjoyed your video sir Spencer! Thanks Mate 👍
Thank you for your video on the Seiko SKX. This is why it is for many watch aficionados one of the most famous divers and it is also one of the most affordable automatic divers out there.
I’ve got seven of them, including a 007, 009, A35, 173, 013, and a couple I’ve modded. Probably gonna buy a few more. Perfect watch indeed.
Nice one, I have the 009, a true keeper
Great video as always. Thanks for sharing.
Love my SKX007/009.
One of my favorite places to go in the mountains is Glenwood Springs.
It's nice that you also showed Hanging Lake. A nice mountain hike if you are up to it.
Great watches also. Thank you
We all got up there - I had Sebastian on my back in a carrier frame pack!
Absolutely love my 007,love the Strapcode Jubilee. Crafter blue strap.so ya a strap monster....
I just picked up a Seiko SKX007j. Thank you for the very informative video. 🍻 Cheers
Enjoy!
Another informative vid. Thanks Spencer!
Love the roman numerals on that 6309 mech! Do you know in what market those roman day wheels were sold?
Steve C
Cool story. Cool watch. Cool vid!
that mask on your wall reminds me the taiko drumming ending scene [end of honor quality era] at the end of the 60s Hideo Gosha movie Goyokin
I have the 011J. I like it a lot and it looks great on a NATO.
Tod S. me too but wear mine on an uncle seiko tropic strap and get more comments on it than my Kermit Submariner by a million miles ! Enjoy!
What’s your feeling about the midsize case SKX? Nice vid!
I do like the jubilee-bracelet of the skx007. In fact I can't wear the skx on the rubber strap because of the crown guards which then tends to dig into my wrist, a major flaw of the skx's case in my opinion. With the bracelet I don't have that problem and it's very comfortable to wear, I don't get why so many people complain about it,
Hi Spencer, great video review of an icon. I have a SKX009 and a SKX007. I notice the older models have a 4 o'clock crown vs the SKX's 3:45 crown. Why did Seiko change it from 4 to 3:45? Thank you.
I have a hunch on this subject. I bet it was so that the same date wheel could be used for both 3 o'clock and "3:45" crowns. The 31 numerals on a date wheel won't line up if you rotate the crown 1/12th of a rotation, as you would need to if using the same movement in both 3 and 4o'clock crown cases. So you would normally have to used a different date wheel for a 4o'clock crown. To get around this, you could design all the cases destined to house your movement so that 1 date wheel works for all of them, as Daini did with the 70xx and 7S series. We can calculate out an example for 3 vs "3:45" crowns.
A dial face has 12 divisions for the hour, while a date wheel has 31 divisions for the day. Needless to say, 12 is not a factor of 31 (in fact, 31 is a prime number), so if you insist on putting the crown right on an hour position, it will only work for one position. But what's really important in this example is keeping the date wheel lined up with the date window on the dial, not keeping the crown lined up with the hour markers. So we need to calculate what intervals we can rotate the crown by and still keep the date wheel lined up. The answer is obviously by increments of 1 day, which is 1/31st of a full rotation. But what does that mean in terms of hours on the dial?
12 hours / 31 days = 0.3871 hrs/day
Assuming our base position is 3o'clock, this means that the crown will end up plus or minus some multiple of 0.3871 hours away from 3, which is definitely not going to be a very round number. So how many increments is the crown of a 7S26 shifted from 3 o'clock?
Base + Increment x Multiple = Position (hours) or Position (hr:min)
3 + 0.3871 x 1 = 3.3871 or 3:28.23
3 + 0.3871 x 2 = 3.7741 or 3:46.45
Looks like 2 increments (2 days of the date wheel) matches up pretty well with our "3:45" crown, which is actually more like 3:46.5, or about 3.77 hours.
Chester Snapdragon McPhisticuff you are exactly correct. One less part to manufacture and also speeds up production during assembly because you don’t need to install a separate date wheel for the different crown positions. You need only replace the day wheel, which, on these movements only requires removing a small c-clip and swapping in whatever day wheel you need.
@@chestersnapdragonmcphistic579 Thank you for the detailed explanation. This does make sense.
We need a Spencer Klein T-shirt channel.
I just bought an SKX173 from a small town AD that looks to have been neglected NOS for 15 years. It has a Singapore dial, A movement, and an Aug 2004 serial, and came with box and papers, and a warranty card the seller filled out in front of me... the tag and box had the wrong model number though (SKX175) which makes me a bit concerned it may not be true NOS. Everything looks to be the appropriate age, though, including the charming 7S26-only dive watch manual.
Anything I should look out for on a watch that old with questionable newness? I imagine it doesn’t have much wear, but some things age no matter what. It was a little slow but I was able to correct that by nudging the regulator. I don’t have a timegrapher so I don’t know what the amplitude is like.
I have an SKX007 I bought last year which I upgraded with an NH36 but this has pretty much replaced it as my daily wear. I can’t bring myself to stop wearing the 173 despite knowing I won’t dare swap the movement on it like I did with the 007. I prefer the dial design and I even like the old style rubber strap it came on.
Nice !!! Wish I have one of these
Great story, Spencer! Just wondered. Do you know when seiko stopped producing the 7s26 A-movements? I believe they vere introduced in 1996? The reason me wondering is that my skx009 has a A-movement with a serialnumber starting with "66". I bought the watch used in 2014, so either is it from 2006, or 1996. What do you think?
1996. This one of mine is "88" and has a "B", is from 2008.
@@SpencerKleinVintageWatch It still can be a 2006, or not? It is an amazing watch, running -0,4 seconds a day.
The 7S26 B-movement was introduced in Oct. 2006 - so your watch can be from June 1996 or June 2006.
@8.35 I think i just shit myself...
The one in the right is kind of "second line of Seiko" once it doesnt have written on it "21 jewels made in Japan" most of these are made in Singapore, Philippines, etc but not in Japan :/
Let's not forget about the SKX 013!
The millions they made you're bound to find the odd great one, although the fact that they stop very quickly if not worn, they are not going to wear out.
They have good looks, but with the lack of Sapphire and lack of handwinding I always gave them a miss.
I use my head.
If I used my heart I probably would have bought one.
My favourite daily edc is a Sea-gull Ocean Star which has Sapphire and handwinding and suits my wrist at 44mm and 13mm high with its curved lugs.
I am brave to come on here and put my view out. I await the flak from the Seiko fans out there.
Cool 😎
Spencer, how can I get an SKX with an orange dial and red bezel, all with lume, of course?
nice video..
I love the SKX171 with the old 7002 Starfish bezel and Sugar Daddy markers. It's not #TeamCornDog but it's my favorite!