re: TGIF Watch thread

Happy Friday… wearing one of my Fugus today. Really like the Fugu line, lot of watch for the money you can pick one up for.

Another odd duck today. A "Watchco" Seamaster 300.

For those that don't know Watchco was an Australian company (now called About Time and Marcus moved to New Zealand) that had an Omega parts account. They figured out about 15 years or so ago that Omega made all the parts to make a 1960's Seamaster 300 diver as service parts except for the movement. There were tons of cheap non-diver Seamasters around with the same movement. They started buying them up taking the movement out, servicing them, and using service parts to build "new" SM300s. Omega got wind of it after several years and made some of the parts including the mid-case and caseback exchange only and the Watchco SM300 became unobtanium. I went a step farther into the gray and had my relumed by an expert relumer and had him add a big triangle at 12 so it mimics a 165.024. Powered by the ubiquitous Cal. 552.

While not an upper end timepiece as many others in this thread, it carries a special significance to me. Bought it back in 1973 on my first deployment overseas.
Seiko 6139-6002 Pogue Pepsi
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thats dumb IMO

a black & red GMT II?? that thing will fly off the shelves.

more manly than the pepsi.

fantasy version is already out

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need to remake that as a GMT II and rolex would print money for a few years.

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Rolex would bring it out first in white gold with a dial sliced from petrified velociraptor poop for $35k and then 5-6 years later bring it out in SS.

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Seiko 6139-6002

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Interesting is far more intriguing than just "upper end".

Today I broke out this old one with the resolve to wear it more...15200 Oyster Perpetual Date ("T" SN from 1996). This is the lesser known (and less expensive) sibling of the much-loved DateJust. Fewer dial choices, and seen most often either with a smooth angled or engine turned (15210) SS bezel.

Case size is 34mm with 19mm lug width. Wears very similar to the current iteration of the 36mm Explorer 124270. Powered by the venerable long-standing workhorse 3135 movement, this example shows the blue sunburst dial with white gold stick markers and hands. The lume dots and hand inserts are tritium as noted by the "T Swiss Made T" notation of the later runs of the Tritium dials framing the 6 o'clock marker.

I included a side by side with the 124270 showing the difference in case diameter (36mm vs 34mm). The lug-to-lug, however is nearly identical at just a shade over 42mm. The bracelet has the same 19mm lug width with pronounced taper to 14mm at the clasp attachment.

The new Tudor Pelagos FXD GMT is a good looking tool watch.



The Green lume on the GMT hand is a nice touch.