Showing posts with label watches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label watches. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Seiko mug

I did a Seiko mug design with the help of a professional freelance designer on Fiverr. It is really easy, find the freelancer specializing in the task you have at hand, then you upload the material you have, explain what you are after and also include a rough sketch if needed. Then wait for the result and correct as needed, the better you explain in the beginning the less there is to fix in the end.

Received from postal courier

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Seiko "Ukiyo-e"

Having seen all sorts of watches whilst browsing Seiko I came across some very fancy ones displaying paintings on the dials and I got interested in the origin and meaning of these. There is very little information online but I managed to find out that these watches are mostly from the 70's and they are actually mod's (modified watches) made back then. On these watches only the dial has been modified though and they display various motifs from the Ukiyo-e artform that was prevalent during the Japanese Edo era.

Seiko "Ukiyo-e" on an Actus, by artist Toshusai Sharaku
"Ichikawa Ebizo IV in the role of Takemura Sadanoshin"

Friday, October 25, 2024

Watch collectors funnies

Having been bitten by the Seiko fly some years ago I have come across several different meme's, some of them funny some of them not but some I thought worth saving so I have posted below the perhaps funniest ones that tickled my funny bone. Hope you enjoy and get a chuckle of the day 😃

An actual Seiko ad from 70's


Saturday, July 30, 2022

Seiko 5 review

Been for a while an avid Seiko fan and have collected a few as they are mostly quite affordable and the watches don't lose value over time, in some cases they could become more valuable as fans snap them up and they become popular for one reason or the other. 

Daylight in shade

Seiko has been in business since 1881 and in the early years they cleaned the floor with all the European watch manufacturers in many exhibitions and accuracy tests taking first prizes. They still produce today a multitude of various watches ranging from about 100EUR to thousands of EUR with the same time accuracy as from the beginning.