Help me recreate this style: Blue faced Omega watch with red leather band. - Page 4

SGEG03

60$ - 70$

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Originally Posted by Reevolving 

Out of the blue, I got a few compliments on the watch this week.
I really am starting to hate the self-winding aspect.
I need to set the time every single morning, which is a real annoyance.

Interesting. Your Seiko 5's 7s26 movement should have a 40 hour power reserve, so it should be fine overnight. Do you not move your arms when you walk? Maybe try to dance around more?

Joking aside, I think you did a really nice job recreating that Omega's look. The only Seiko 5 I think that looks closer is the SNKL43 because of it's dauphine hands:

I went on a quest a couple months back to find the exact perfect light-faced Seiko 5. In doing so, I compiled a catalog of Seiko 5s. Anytime I try to find a Seiko 5 of a different color, I first find a light-faced one on that spreadsheet with features that I like, and then I search Google Images for something with a product number within a range of 5-10 from the original. But as you found, there are many Seiko 5s with very similar features.

Okay, what you're seeing is a problem. Apparently this isn't unheard of, and can possibly be fixed by simply smacking it against your palm. If not, I suggest you take it to a watch repair place, as it should be fairly simple to fix for someone who knows what they're doing.

But please don't give up on all automatics/mechanicals; they're amazing little machines to be celebrated. Quartz watches are amazing little computers, but there's something impressive about such an accurate instrument being powered merely by our sloppy, wasted physical movement.

Yeah, the spreadsheet went from a place to put all the ones I was considering to an experiment in "just how many Seiko 5s are out there?!". But yes, I also enjoy that sort of obsessive research.

I think one of the white-faced 5s would look great on a leather band. I think my SNKH47 would look especially nice with its red minute hand.

This one would be great, but I can't seem to track it down anywhere. I'm sure it's long since out of stock:

Here's a blue-faced Orient with a power reserve for $120.

This thread is hilarious.  I hope OP doesn't approve of buying expensive clothing either.

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Originally Posted by Reevolving 

Imitate. Replicate. Semantics.

"Designer" as in overpriced.
 

It's not "overpriced"; it's a well engineered watch.  A designer watch is (for example) an Armani made by Fossil which costs $500.  *That* is an overpriced watch.  You are simply not willing to spend $3000 on a watch, which is fine, but it's not overpriced in the same way that a $3000 bespoke jacket is not overpriced. You get what you pay for in this instance.

Now that I have that out of my system, I think you did a fine job with the project.  I may just have to copy you.