Greetings from the Mother Land 😜


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Planning to drop by the Seiko Museum most importantly... this one secondary because I don't think I'm going to be buying this trip anyway.

Sup guys lol!!!


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Just my Orient (still acceptable since it's owned by Seiko)... Didn't bring my travel box along with me this trip anyway... Why carry more stuff when you have the option to travel light?

More pics later... but was exciting to see a couple of pieces I have in the museum display cases too.

Not buying anything for now... Other responsibilities... Maybe next time I come over...

What models are you looking for? I'll check if I see them at Wako...

This post may be 56k heavy...

I'll dump the pics in a spoiler tag anyway and hopefully they won't hurt so much...

Front of the Seiko Museum... At this point I had goosebumps!


Signed up for the guided tour (requires advance reservation)... Got a short history of timekeeping in general and a view of some of the landmarks in timekeeping history.



Here's my first piece in common with the museum... The Railway Watch... which according to history, was made after a railway accident was caused by one of the clocks used being off by 4 minutes. (I have the one on the far left)



Interesting exhibit with the sport history of Seiko... This one is of a pressure sensitive plate used for timing swimming events. If you hit exactly 9.59 by hitting the plate, you win some kind of prize. I failed obviously... got 9.8 or something like that.

Fast forward a little to the 2nd floor (1st floor is general history of timekeeping)... and it's all about the history of Seiko up until the present.

Of course, the Laurel was there.


The first Grand Seiko... along with some King Seiko from roughly the same era...


And then a group shot of the early divers from Seiko...


There was also a small GS exhibit... of which of course the GMT Chrono SD is my favourite.



At the end of the tour, you see a remnant of the original Seiko factory that burned down... where Seiko lost almost everything, but still offered to replace ALL of the timepieces that customers had lost in the fire.



After all that, there's a small museum shop with a limited selection of Seiko, Lukia (womens line), Grand Seiko, and Credor. I really wanted to be able to see the Credor Minute Repeated, but apparently they had just returned it to a store. I'll be honest and say that the GS Quartz is much more beautiful in person... maybe even better than the Credor quartz in terms of movement.

Here's a short clip from the GS display case. I also made the cardinal sin of recording in portrait...



I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm honestly quite attracted by that second hand. It might not be the SD sweep, but there's something very smooth about it. Hope everyone enjoyed the tour... and tomorrow I'll be heading over to WAKO.

This post has been edited by biatch0: Oct 30 2015, 12:36 AM

There's English explanations on everything that has an explanation. If there's Jap text, there's probably English text too. But there's maybe 10-20% of the items that have text on them... so the remaining 80%+ is textless whatever language you speak. The guide helps explain all that (things like water clocks and how they work, etc), if you want... Otherwise, you can easily go without a guided tour and just appreciate the pieces on your own.

Don't need to. If there's Jap text, there's an English translation there.

For everything else, either you have the guide to explain things to you... or you just walk around without a guide and just look. However, I cannot confirm that you can walk around without a guide... this "might" be required.

There's definitely a slight difference in how the second hand ticks between quartz watches... if I had a quartz GS, it'd be easier to show it side by side... but unfortunately... haha.

Dropped by WAKO today... but had somewhat limited time, so didn't check prices of anything.



A couple of the collections available on the ground floor...


And of course, I had to handle the Snowflake. Stunning in person... had to slap myself before I took out the card to grab it. One day... one day...

Dropped by Yobodashi as well... Couldn't find the Urushi (might have been out of stock?)... The MM300 however is retailing for around 230k yen.

I've got a lunch appointment at a Michelin restaurant

After that it's light and easy... most probably pick up some souvenirs and things like that from around the apartment in Shinjuku... Flight back is late tonight.

Akasaka Kien is what the place is called I think... Wasn't too bad considering I don't really like seafood Really small place with seating for 6 at a time max.

Back in KL now without any new watches... I resisted!!! Muahaha...

This post has been edited by biatch0: Nov 1 2015, 07:23 AM

No new OR old... Side effect of growing up and having other responsibilities that need to be handled first... I was very tempted to pick up the MM300, but I don't really have that much available to just throw away at the moment. There's always next time...

I personally wouldn't... but if it speaks to you, why not?

Is it just me or did that video make it look like it was either a quartz or ran at something like 18k bph?

Also... he buttoned his cuffs... looked tight... no way that's going to fit under... LOL.

Too... sporty? I only find the MM series, Presage, and GS attractive really. All the other Seiko lines tend to be a little weird except for a few models here and there...

I think they start from just under US$2k. Most of them would be under the... Ananta range I think? Not too sure.

Yes. A basic Seiko quartz chrono can probably be picked up for around RM800?