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A compact, sharply dressed Lord Matic with a 23-jewel automatic caliber, day-date display and familiar late-sixties Seiko design language.
A purpose-built quartz diver from the era when practicality, legibility and resilience were the guiding design brief.
The 6106 family represents the accessible automatic watches that made Japanese mechanical engineering part of everyday life.
On December 25, 1969, Seiko commercially introduced the Quartz Astron, establishing a new era of wristwatch timekeeping.
A representative of Citizen’s broad mechanical era, where caseback codes, dial printing and movement markings are essential to dating.
ALBA gives the archive a crucial chapter: energetic shapes, unexpected colors and accessible Japanese quartz design.
A small hand-wound mechanical watch from a period of rapid innovation in Japanese mass-market timekeeping.
A sport-oriented quartz family, with individual caseback and dial references awaiting verification.