Multi-language Day Wheels?
My recently acquired new old stock Seiko 5 SNXS73 came from a reputable grey market vendor. I was wondering where the stock of these might be coming from, given production of the movement ended in 2011 and the “5” line got a makeover in 2019. Then I spotted the day wheel in English and Arabic. Must have been somewhere serving the Middle East, I suppose.
I have other day/date in English/Spanish. This is my first Arabic example.
What languages do you have or have you seen on watch day wheels?
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NotThatNeil
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I have a similar Seiko (mine is the SNXS75 though). I bought it from a local pawn shop, but I didn’t realize it had the Arabic date wheel until I got home. It’s my second Arabic-Indic Seiko, and I find them fascinating!
I have English/French on a Seiko monster. SKX781 if I remember correctly. And English/german on a citizen Promaster auto.
Yup my first day date was English Arabic too
I explicitly ordered my SBSA057 from Japan to get the Kanji date wheel (English is the second language on the whee)l
The only watch with a day wheel I own is in Swiss German (Mäntig, Zischtig etc.).
Boy that's some spicy looking sand script
I own watches with English/French and English/Japanese day wheels.
I had an SKX with that Arabic/English date wheel as well.
As I’m based in Germany, my Seikos bought here have English/German day wheels. The Seiko 5 I bought from Singapore came with an English/Spanish wheel, which was a nice surprise, as I’m native from Spain. It was always curious to see a blue SAB on Saturdays. My vintage Seiko SQ 4004, bought from an Egyptian dealer, had a cool vertical day complication with a wheel in 3 languages, English/French/Spanish:
(Old pic, I sold this piece a while ago).
My Seiko prospex has german and English...
My Seiko 5 has this too, but for some reason they only show up from midnight to 3 a.m. for some reason, then just goes to English day names
I am also fascinated by this. I don’t enjoy a day window in English but like the international remnder of another language. Any Dutch day wheels out there?
My Seiko 5 has this too, but for some reason they only show up from midnight to 3 a.m. for some reason, then just goes to English day names
Be careful when setting the date if the watch is showing a time within a few hours of midnight. If you force the change while the mechanism is near the switch it can move things. If it bothers you, it should be something a reputable watchmaker can fix. Best of luck! 🤝
My Seiko 5 has this too, but for some reason they only show up from midnight to 3 a.m. for some reason, then just goes to English day names
Or…the mechanism does have to pass over one language to get to the other. If you want to set the other language, move the hand to noon-ish (see previous comment) and set the language you want to see. Yes, the other will be visible for a time near midnight when the day/date is changing. 👍🏻
This #seiko5 has both #arabicdial (numbers) as well as an English and Arabic day-date wheel.