bbattle wrote: ↑March 29th 2024, 4:40pm
Nice! what watch is that? I know the 'T' doesn't stand for Timex.
Thanks Battle! ~Tsunami~
This dude Noah Fuller used to modify Seiko and eventually started making his own cases et. al. and selling parts and whole watches under the name of Tsunami.
Noah was a American who lived in Hong Kong and was on PMWF a lot so when he came to the states we put together a GTG and he proved to be a genuinely cool dude who was funny as hell.
Regrettably, he very soon after fell into the highly erosive cycles cancer often brings and passed away shortly thereafter… young 30s? Huge bummer.
His buddy “Jake B” carried on in HK under brand “Dagaz” watches - which I just learned had finally imploded about a year ago. It’s gotta be tough trying to making a living manufacturing & selling reasonably priced bits to a globe full of know-it-alls.
So this is just a watch, an old Seiko - but it holds footnotes of an era of privateer modification using parts from people who have left a mark while passing through this thing of ours.
They were something along the lines of Carlo Abarth the legendary serial Fiat-modifier and racer who took a pretty good product in the 500, made some improvements, and sold it as his ‘own’.
Jake is out, and Noah, like Carlo, was ‘called home’ years ago.
Yet, the watches upon which they tinkered, like time itself, simply carry on…
The 6309-7040 is like like the Fiat;
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But, once modified with Tsunami or other non-factory parts, it is more like the ‘Abarth’:
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