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Seiko 5 Sports transitions
I open this present entry by paraphrasing the introduction to a post I made in June 2015 entitled A Kind of Blue. That post concerned the revival of a Seiko 5-branded 6119-8083 and for reasons that remain a mystery to me, is one of the most popular articles in this blog. In that introduction, I noted that the Seiko 5 sub-brand was conceived originally in 1963 to have 5 key attributes:
Automatic winding
Day/date displayed in a single window
Water resistance
Recessed crown at the 4 position
Durable case and bracelet.
The introduction of the ‘5 Sports’ series five years later in 1968, was designed to bring the advantages of the Seiko 5 to more up-market watches, with, for example, the 5 Sports branding being used in some of the 6139 automatic chronographs (see here and here, for example
https://adventuresinamateurwatchfettlin ... 9-to-1970/
Automatic winding
Day/date displayed in a single window
Water resistance
Recessed crown at the 4 position
Durable case and bracelet.
The introduction of the ‘5 Sports’ series five years later in 1968, was designed to bring the advantages of the Seiko 5 to more up-market watches, with, for example, the 5 Sports branding being used in some of the 6139 automatic chronographs (see here and here, for example
https://adventuresinamateurwatchfettlin ... 9-to-1970/
Part 2 of three
Seiko 5 Sports 5126-6010
Let’s get right into it, the introductions having been made in the previous entry. In this, the second in a three part series, we are going to focus our attention on a Seiko 5 Sports 5126-6010 dating from May 1969. This model was one of a number of freshly minted designs that formed part of the second wave of Seiko 5 Sports models that hit the Japanese domestic market at the end of the 1960’s.
https://adventuresinamateurwatchfettlin ... -may-1969/
Seiko 5 Sports 7019-6030
In this, the third and final part of our mini-series on Daini-produced Seiko 5 Sports watches, we turn our attention to the marginally younger of our two examples, a Seiko 7019-6030 from May 1970.
https://adventuresinamateurwatchfettlin ... -may-1970/

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