Chinese High School Clock Tower. Photo by BonniPink
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I am putting together this blog entry to document the various landmarks and buildings in Singapore where Seiko clocks are installed.
If you spot a Seiko clock in Singapore, please send me a picture.
Now, let’s take a look at the ones that have been discovered.
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Multi-year calendar watch puts any month’s calendar on the watch and gives you instant answers to questions like “what is the date for next Friday?”, “what day does my birthday falls on?”. This is definitely a very practical function that a watch can offer besides telling time.
This time round, I had the opportunity to handle a multi-year calendar watch from Orient. Orient has been making these multi-year calendar watches for many years and they can be considered one of Orient’s signature pieces.
This piece that I handled is a recent model that comes with slide rule feature. Model number is CEU07005WX.
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CDH00001B
If you are looking for affordable mechanical watches with added features like world time, slide rule, power reserve, open heart, sub second, etc, you should look no further than Orient.
Orient is known for incorporating these features into their watches and this time round, I had the opportunity to handle an Orient with dual time and slide rule features. The watch is called the Orient Dual Time and the model number CDH00001B.
Above is a a new automatic GS GMT model that I discovered recently. I have a post on various automatic GS GMT models in my windows.live space dated 28th Jan 2008 and with this new discovery, I am re-posting the article here with the new model updated.
Here’s the article:
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I am a regular visitor of Antiwatchman.com and after so many years of visiting the site, I finally bought something from them. The watch I purchased is the SBDX005 from the Year 2000 Historical Collection.
The purchase was made with the help of Seiyajapan.com as Antiwatchman does not ship out of Japan.
Above is a picture of the watch shown at Antiwatchman.
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After the boutique tour, we gathered once again at the conference room on the 4th floor for some snacks and a Q&A session to round up the ‘insider’ session.
Here are the door gifts that were given to the participants.
Above is a Seiko collar pin and below, a pair of Seiko gloves.
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The Seiko Boutique Tour (Cont’d)
The Seiko boutique displays Seiko watches from both the international lineup and the Japan domestic lineup. In addition, it also displays full range of Alba watches and a small selection of Agnes B watches that are powered by Seiko movements.
With us on the tour was the sales manager, Teddy and the boutique assistants.
Again, let me take you along with me to take a look at some of the watches that are available here at the Seiko boutique.
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I attended an exclusive ‘insider’ session at Thong Sia Singapore on 26th Sep 2009. The event was jointly organized by Ogilvy Public Relations, the PR agent of Seiko Japan and Thong Sia Singapore, the distributor of Seiko watches in Singapore. Together with me was my friend Knight Lim and strongman Badern.
Now, let me take you along with me to the event.
I have posted on the new SNKH63K1 before (two posts down) but this time round, I managed to bring home a specimen and I took the opportunity to take some pictures of it.
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Yeoman's Watch Review 