I purchased many G-shocks from Seiya-san and in my humble opinion there is no one, here or anywhere, I would rather buy from. He is a true gentleman who has gone out of his way to help me find that elusive G-shock. Over the years he has treated me more like a friend than a customer.

Respectfully,
Tom

Thanks for your nice comments in your reply and e-mail. I actually didn’t look good at the display. It’s the same display as found on the GL-100V models. Indeed the 2226 module. The Auto Light Switch should have pointed me to this module. Actually I have not a very good memory and my website is my own Encyclopedia. There is so much to know about G-Shocks, that it’s impossible for me to remember it all.

The “rear projection” backlight is not seen much on G-Shocks. If I’m correct, it is found on one Frogman Real Black(?), the Silver Collection models (with a mirror face LCD) and the GL-110 models.

Kind Regards,

Sjors

You’re right about the DW-004 casing, but the module No. 2226 is different than the DW-6900’s 1289 (at least that’s the module in my coral-colored France ‘98 Fifa World Cup DW-6900, also obtained from the resourceful Seiya– but maybe there are other DW-6900 modules over the years?)

You can see a great similarity of design in the two models, including the cool white dials that I love so much, but with several notable differences:

1. The “Vice Eye” DW-004 has “rear-projection” illumination, if you know what I mean, so the “transparent” numbers and letters light up against a dark background rather than the other way around, making for a cool and unusual effect. Both watches turn on illumination by pushing the “G” button below the face, but the DW-004 also has auto-EL, triggered by tilting your wrist. I believe it is one of the first of this type, though I am anything but a walking encyclopedia on these matters (like you and Bryan!).

2. Changing modes causes an animated reconstruction of each succeeding screen, rather than the usual all at once transition. A line of dashes appears first - - - - - -, then it multiplies into several lines, and those morph into the display. Kind of a rolling action and then all of a sudden ST 00:00 00 & there you go.

3, The chronographic registers are a mirror image arrangement of the 6900’s– LRG-sm-sm vs. sm-sm-LRG.

It is an exceptionally strking design, with the highest contrast dial I have seen in any G because the lcd is much whiter than usual. I have never seen one posted on any of the forums, so I’d guess it is a rather rare bird. I bought it cold turkey, just because I liked its picture, and only learned of all the french pastry when it arrived. One of those nice watches that exceeded all expectations by multiples, and became a total winner.

Thanks for your interest Sjors. A pleasure to hear from you.

Jim

I think this is my favorite one I got from Seiya:

I always love doing business with him and I hope he will be helping us for a real long time in good health.

Jim,

What’s that G-Shock model you have, it looks like a DW-004 case with a DW-6900 module…

Kind regards from the Netherlands,

Sjors

I loved your interview and wondered which little dot I was in your world-wide sea of customers? There were a lot fewer when I put it there! Here is one of my favorite G-Shock masterpieces that Seiya bought for me. Cooool.

With warm wishes from sunny Los Angeles,
Jim

From the name on the pen, I believe it belonged to his father.

Cheers,
Thomas