My least favorite watch is turning out to be my most fun
So of the five watches I own, my Seiko Speedtimer SSC813 is my least favorite. It’s beautiful, but proportionally it’s a touch too small, the 24 hour dial is useless, and the counter is so small it’s nearly illegible. It’s just not really a useable chronograph. Still, I’m having a blast with it!
I treat it more as jewelry now than a functional chrono and it’s been so liberating. I own two bracelets (OEM and Jubilee), two leather straps (black and brown) and I’m about to order a yellow rubber strap for summer. I’m constantly swapping out for my mood and/or look and feel of what I’m wearing and I’m telling you it’s been so much fun. It makes me want to try more strap options for the watches I do like.
If you’re looking for an excellent chronograph I suggest you pass on this watch. But if you’re looking for a versatile piece that’s just plain fun to play around with, I can’t recommend this watch highly enough!
I love this watch too, especially the blue dial version, and agree with your assessment. It's not all that useful as a chrono, although it can certainly perform the function, and the 24 hour dial is essentially useless. Yet, the watch looks great, fits great (for me), has great accuracy, and is just fun as hell. And really, that's why we wear these things.
Btw, where's that jubilee from? It looks great!
One of my faves on a jubilee from Strapcode. I need to venture into some different straps.
I love this watch too, especially the blue dial version, and agree with your assessment. It's not all that useful as a chrono, although it can certainly perform the function, and the 24 hour dial is essentially useless. Yet, the watch looks great, fits great (for me), has great accuracy, and is just fun as hell. And really, that's why we wear these things.
Btw, where's that jubilee from? It looks great!
Strapcode
I don’t like chronos but I love this affordable 🐼!
It certainly is a fanatically proportioned and lovely looking watch if that is what you want. I wore mine on a black rally strap which suited it perfectly. Unfortunately it had too many flaws to stick around in my collection so reluctantly I had too let it go.
Some of my issues were the useless 24 hr dial, small and poorly positioned date window, unnecessary F/E dial at the too small 6o/clock register, purple hues of the sub dials.
Perhaps the 41mm version improves some of these issues?
The Certina DS-2 presidrive watch a bought to replace the speedtimer resolved the issues I had but it’s not solar, which I wanted, but is much more accurate.
It certainly is a fanatically proportioned and lovely looking watch if that is what you want. I wore mine on a black rally strap which suited it perfectly. Unfortunately it had too many flaws to stick around in my collection so reluctantly I had too let it go.
Some of my issues were the useless 24 hr dial, small and poorly positioned date window, unnecessary F/E dial at the too small 6o/clock register, purple hues of the sub dials.
Perhaps the 41mm version improves some of these issues?
The Certina DS-2 presidrive watch a bought to replace the speedtimer resolved the issues I had but it’s not solar, which I wanted, but is much more accurate.
Nice Certina
I found the same thing with my Seiko Speedtimer. I was a bit disappointed with it at first... but now it's one of my favourites!
I can almost look past its misaligned chrono-hand at this point lol.
I found the same thing with my Seiko Speedtimer. I was a bit disappointed with it at first... but now it's one of my favourites!
I can almost look past its misaligned chrono-hand at this point lol.
you should be able to realign the chrono hand pretty easily. If you search online I know there's a video on how to realign the chrono and subdial hands. It should also be in the manual (which I'd figure is on seiko's website).
you should be able to realign the chrono hand pretty easily. If you search online I know there's a video on how to realign the chrono and subdial hands. It should also be in the manual (which I'd figure is on seiko's website).
I know what you mean and I did do that in the past but there’s still just a very minor misalignment. Most of the time it’s not even noticeable.
Thanks for the suggestion though 🙂