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The GMT+9 Auction Watchlist #6

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Lots of good stuff to show here this time for the period of 11/07/2007 - 12/07/07. First up from Yahoo! Japan is this unusual 7C43 diver. These aren’t too common and the price reflected the rarity. It sold for 90,000 yen!

Here is a diver even harder to find than the Seiko. Yes, a Ricoh 700M diver. A great beast of a watch. Selling price was 76,750 yen.

Ricoh 700M Diver

I liked the concentric markings on this Seiko Crown dial. The watch didn’t generate any interest though and sold at 4,000 yen. There is a gold mine of good deals on Yahoo! Japan for old dress Seikos.

Seiko Crown

Fore! Check out this pocket watch with the golf ball pattern on the caseback. Very unique. 22,550 yen.

Seiko Marvel

Seiko Golf

I wanted to buy this one, but with all the agent fees involved, it just wouldn’t have been worth it. It’s a Seiko Elnix tiebar. It sold for 2500 yen.

Seiko Tiebar

Here’s another Ricoh orange diver which sold for much less than it’s big brother. Price was 6,000 yen.

Ricoh Dive Watch

These Italian Chronographs don’t show up like they used to. Not too much interest either. I think this watch is more known for its bracelet (which folks like to use on the 300M Quartz Marinemaster) than for the watch head. It sold for 9,000 yen.

Seiko Italian Chronoraph

Well….there must be something good in this pile. Isn’t that a white DW-5900? 24,409 yen.

Pile O' Watches

These little Seiko ring watches are fun. I see them quite often on Yahoo and eBay. I can’t imagine how small the movement is. I bet watchmakers hate to work on something like this. Price was 3,500 yen.

Seiko Ring Watch

Here is a colorful Yacht Timer that went for 10,000 yen.

Yacht Timer Seiko

There were two of these rare Jare Limited Edition Samurais that recently were listed. This one was bid up to 48,500 yen, I think the other one sold for a bit more.

Jare Seiko

You don’t often see the gold version of the M-726 Scubamaster dive computer. It’s called the M-725 and it was bidded up to I think 30,000 yen.

M 725 Scubamaster

It’s ugly and beautiful at the same time with a face only an engineer could love. It’s Citizens first (I suspect) radio controlled watch. Very collectible and expensive. 101,000 yen.

Citizen RC Watch

Lets move on to Ebay. Prices on the 4S15 SUS’s seem to be rising lately. $710.00 for this one.

Seiko SUS 4S15

People seem to like these. It’s an Empire Seikosha pocket watch conversion. I’m not sure how much of this watch besides the movement is genuine, but it still garnered interest. Selling price was $810.00.

Empire Seikosha

A few weeks ago, there were maybe 20 or more of these Citizen Railroad watches released on the Yahoo! Japan site simutaneously. Maybe the railroad recently decommissioned a batch? This one though, was on eBay and it sold for $150.00.

Citizen Railroad

Neat little orange Citizen. $44.00

Orange Citizen

This is one of the cooler watches of this watchlist. It’s a TM-1 Casio radio watch. Although it’s missing its antenna, it still looks to be in good shape. It didn’t get the interest that I thought it would. Selling price was $67.00.

Casio TM-1

As little interest as the TM-1 received, this one was heavily watched. I’d never seen this Casio jump hour watch, but the Casio collectors jumped on it. It was bid up to just over $250.00.

Casio Jump Hour

Before they released the Campanola’s, Citizen actually released a number of watches under their own moniker with Campanola like designs. This is an example of one. $61.00!

Citizen PreCampanola

To end it for this installment, this is just a simple Seiko Sports 100 diver. This is a watch that would fit in well in many collections. $75.00.

Seiko Sports 100

Thanks for reading and a special thanks to ptolemy and seikomart for steering me towards some interesting watches.

3 Responses to “The GMT+9 Auction Watchlist #6”

  1. martback Says:

    Hi petew,

    I thought I would add a watch and follow up on one of your posted watches.

    First one is the Crown you posted above. This is a slightly better example off the Japanese auctions. About USD 100 newly serviced last year.

    Other interesting watch I saw in the auctions this month were a bunch of Seiko Sottsass Quartz watches. The same seller had four of these in different colours. Otherwise you only see one or two per year. The watches sold for 20.000 yen for the cheapest to about 60.000 yen for the most expensive. The one below was purchased by me for 43.000 yen. I this has the best colour combination.

    / mart (seikomart)

  2. ptolemy Says:

    pete, thanx for the write up. i do wish yahoo sellers would write a bit more about the watches they sell. sometimes it takes me a good hour to figure out if it’s a quartz watch or not. in the long run, i suppose thats where the most fun is at :)

  3. ThomasH Says:

    I love these posts petew! Thanks for the effort, it’s a window into another world. :-)

    The Golf Watch with what looks like a spike cleaner built in! ÂșLÂș Where else are you going to see a Seiko like that!

    Lots of watches I’ve never seen! Broadening my mind, gotta like that! :-)

    Thanks again, all three of you I guess!

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