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		<title>Seiko’s New Concept Watch for 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Ever faced with the seemingly trivial task of picking two or three (or more!) watches to pack into your luggage for a business or holiday? Well, if you were to ask a non-WIS they would give you the same look when their girlfriend or spouse asks you which clothes they should bring to accompany [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alba AL-4005X "Manta Ray" Diver’s 200m review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Watch History


Date acquired: Apr 2nd 2007
Production Date: Sep 2005
Source: A small quaint watch store in Penang
Price paid: MYR280 (USD85)
Status: In production 


Background
It&#8217;s a diver&#8217;s watch. It&#8217;s big. It&#8217;s blue. It&#8217;s very affordable.
It&#8217;s a very interesting offering from Alba, Seiko&#8217;s sub-company specializing in lower end quartz and automatic timepieces at down-to-earth prices.
What is it? It&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to spot a fake Seiko watch (revised)</title>
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		<comments>http://quartzimodo.com/articles/how-to-spot-a-fake-seiko-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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In the multi-million dollar world of fake and replica watches, you are certainly forgiven if you thought that only Swiss marques are targeted by counterfeiters in the Far East. High end Swiss brands like Rolex, Omega, Breitling, Patek Philippe, Longines and TAG Heuer are the usual victims. The replica watch industry exists so long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seiko Kinetic: Boon or Bane?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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The Seiko Kinetic. Now that&#8217;s a watch technology that had initially discouraged and mystified me for some time. When I first inquired about Seiko Kinetics at a small watch dealer, I was advised to stay away from Kinetics as far as possible. He mentioned about frequent customer complaints and warranty claims from his fellow watch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to tell when your Seiko watch was made (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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In my previous article on how to date your Seiko watch, I mentioned the nifty Jayhawk&#8217;s Production Date Calculator. In most cases it should return the correct date of manufacture.
However, there are circumstances in which the calculator may give you inconclusive or erroneous results. Or no results at all. When that happens, I would resort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seiko Sportura SNJ001P review</title>
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		<comments>http://quartzimodo.com/analog-digital/seiko-sportura-snj001p-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Watch History

Date acquired: Aug 27th 2003 
Production Date: June 2002 
Source: Style Watches Sdn Bhd, BB Plaza 
Price paid: MYR1,070 (USD319) 
Status: Discontinued 

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Background 
The SNJ001P was first Sportura model to use the analog digital H023 module. It’s not the first H023 caliber timepiece &#8211; that title truly belongs to the short lived Prospex Sky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Should Not Buy From Replica Watch Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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&#160;
It seems that online fake watch merchants have decided to spread their wings and expand their wares to include Seiko, Citizen and Casio watches. This subject actually surfaced in the Seiko &#38; Citizen Watch Forum several times this year.
Personally, I couldn&#8217;t care less about replica Swiss watches. There&#8217;s a healthy market for them and people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Farewell to “The Last Samurai”</title>
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		<comments>http://quartzimodo.com/articles/a-farewell-to-the-last-samurai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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No, this post has nothing to do with the 2003 epic Tom Cruise movie that happens to be one of my all-time favorite flicks.   Rather, a little bird told me that Seiko has very recently indicated that their popular and lovable titanium “Samurai” divers are well on their way to total extinction.
As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seiko SNA141P military chronograph review</title>
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		<comments>http://quartzimodo.com/chronograph/seiko-sna141p-military-chronograph-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Watch History 
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Date acquired: May 18th 2005
Production Date: July 2004
Source: Pokemonyu, eBay&#160;
Price paid: USD147
Status: Possibly discontinued


Background
This nice looking watch actually fulfilled two of my personal watch collecting criteria. Firstly, I was looking for a military look Seiko and secondly, I decided to have a representative from the 7T62 alarm chronograph family. I was aware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seiko Prospex SBDC001 Scuba 200m review</title>
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		<comments>http://quartzimodo.com/6r15/seiko-prospex-sbdc001-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Watch History


Date acquired: Apr 21 2007
Production date: Mar 2007
Source: Higuchi Inc, Japan
Price paid: JPY47,000 (USD429)
Status: In production


Background
When stock photos of the SBDC-series divers first appeared on the Internet in early 2007, it created huge ripples in the watch forum communities. It caused widespread excitement and speculation among the Seiko diver watch fans. This was the [...]]]></description>
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