Seiko Champion

Last year I posted about the bankruptcy of Yema, a company that despite all the “French company, French manufacture, French brand” chest-thumping of the firm, was actually a Seiko sub-brand between 1988 and 2005. I first became aware of them through their Seiko 4S15 based SeaSpider diver models.



After finding out a bit more I then became interested in some of their earlier watches (from when they truly were a French brand, and indeed a partially French manufacture), especially their earlier divers and various xxx-GRAF model lines. I see these come up on eBay every so often, usually selling for a fair dollar. For example this Valjoux 7736 based Yachtingraf just sold for US$710.



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Seiko opened a “Seiko Boutique” store in downtown Toronto earlier this year, which for us watch collectors who don’t visit Asia is a great opportunity to see and buy some of the models typically not seen on these shores, up to and including the Ananta and Grand Seiko lines.


Image of one of my grails from SteveG

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Yet another new brand with a dive watch using a Seiko movement. In this case however, we’re cranking up the level of both the watch and the movement.


Image from Halios blog

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It’s always nice to see another Seiko blog pop up on the InterWeb.



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Seriously though, I was checking the Halios watch company blog for news of when this well-received new Vancouver based watch brand (imported Miyota movements, great diver design in their first model) would have something new out, and by complete surprise instead found this Seiko collection. And these 2 pics are just a small small fraction of his total collection!!





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One of my grail watches, the very limited (6 pieces total) SpaceWalk from Seiko, showed up on Ariel Adam’s ablogtoread the other week, with news that one is being auctioned off.



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As I was catching up on my Google Reader list, an article by Ariel Adams (ablogtoread.com) about the LÜM-TEC Lumzilla caught my eye.

(And before I write further – yes, I agree, despite their watches being reasonable, they could really have done without the heavy-metal umlaut and all capital letters in their brand name, they’re supposed to be a watch company not a cover band for Disturbed.)



Guess what – underneath the skin it’s a Seiko!

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Nice post recently by Rich Askham, who writes about some of the repairs he does, including before and after pics. I have to admit I’m a bit jealous of Rich’s technical skills



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