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A few variants of a recent 4R36 Seiko 5

9 Comments Posted by Yeoman on October 28, 2011

Seiko released several 4R based models recently. Here are a couple of variants of one particular model. The hour and minute hands resemble those of the Ananta. The second looks like a new design. Definitely not from the parts bin.

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9 Responses to A few variants of a recent 4R36 Seiko 5

Ricky November 12, 2011 at 10:59 am
Dear Yeoman, I’ve just bought Seiko SRP 175J1 Cal.4R36, w/ Hand Winding and hackable feature at Thong Sia 3′rd Nov 2011 last week. The watch are still made in Japan. The Accuracy is prety good. It’s About -2 Sec per day and very consistent. I have s Question about the hand winding. How many wound should i do for the watch? Do I have to winding it every day?

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- Yeoman November 12, 2011 at 9:24 pm
  Hi Ricky,
  
  Congrats on the Seiko Presage. It is a self-winding watch with hand wind feature. Therefore, you don’t have to wind it everyday if you are wearing it on a daily basis.
  
  Best regards,
  Thomas
  
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  - Ricky November 13, 2011 at 12:02 am
    Thx for U’r suggestion
    
    Best Regards,
    
    Ricky
    
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Marc October 29, 2011 at 7:00 pm
The second hand looks like the one on the seiko velatura range

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- Yeoman October 29, 2011 at 9:15 pm
  Yes, it’s very similar to the one on the Velatura range. Thanks for pointing it out.
  
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Howie Boyd October 29, 2011 at 8:31 am
A very nice look pretty much ruined in my opinion. The spoiling factors are the crappy plastic 60 seconds/minutes chapter rings and the overly styled bezels. Those plastic chapter rings (like on my SNZG07K1) really cheapen the overall dial look. Imagine for instance how good that beige dial with applied markers would look without the cheesy glittery, glossy chapter ring. And what in tarnation is the function of the little bars between the first 4 major divisions? Seiko has done this before (SNZH69K1 and others) and it always seemed to me to have all the stylish utility of a bad toupee. Am I being too harsh?

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- Yeoman October 29, 2011 at 9:13 pm
  Actually the chapter ring does not look too bad unlike the one on the SNZG07.
  The the little bars on the bezel are really redundant.
  
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kohym October 28, 2011 at 10:11 pm
only the yellow looks good imo – like Bumblebee!

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- Yeoman October 30, 2011 at 8:51 am
  Ya, the other colours are standard Seiko 5 colours.
  
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