The GMT+9 Auction Watchlist #8
Welcome back to another installment of the Auction Watchlist. I’ve got watches to show covering auctions from 01/11/08 - 03/06/08. The first watch shown is probably my favorite. It’s a 7K36 Cruising Master which is a cousin of both the 7K52 diving computers and 7k32 Land/Marinemasters. You don’t see these very often, and even though the watch wasn’t running due to (hopefully) just a dead battery, it was bid up to 90,000 yen.
Nice caseback too:
Next up is a Seiko Specturm ink watch. Interesting to see one of these on the secondary market. It sold for 131,000 yen.
I often see people asking about Seiko books on various forums. I have some books from this series, and although they are in Japanese, they are fantastic resources. In this auction, you could have bought the whole set, and in fact, I might have if I could have figured out a cheap way to ship them. The books went unsold at 50,000 yen.
In addition to the above two auctions, Martback also turned me on to this old Seiko Super. Very cool and a surprisingly low (to me) ending bid price of 20,500 yen.
I would have bid on this next one if it hadn’t gotten so high. A very minty looking Casio MQD diver. Take a good look, you may not see one again for awhile. It sold for 43,300 yen.
This nifty little orange 5126 Seiko went for 9,250 yen.
I liked this one because of the whimsical big heart in the display. It’s an older Seiko Pulse watch. 3000 yen.
This ladies diver is actually very cool. I thought the proportions and the use of the gold were great. 9000 yen for all this coolness!
I’d never seen this older Seiko RC watch. Perhaps it’s their first model? Anyone know? It recevied quite a few bids and ended at 12,000 yen.
No one hit the opening bid of 3,210,000 yen on this 4520 gold Observatory Chronometer. Nice watch and I have no idea what the real market price is. It’s been out there for awhile, perhaps it will eventually sell.
This looks to be a very early Citizen Alarm watch. It could possibly be their first. I don’t know enough about these to say if it’s all original or not. Price was 7750 yen.
The floating markers on this Skyliner are very similar to that on one of the Riki Watanabe Alba watches. I wonder if this Skyliner provided him inspiration. 15,500 was the final bid on this handsome old Seiko.
What attracted me to this special edition “Bird Life” Proteck Casio was the packaging. Pretty funny! It sold for 8,000 yen.
Time to move on to eBay with an early Silverwave diver. The dial showed some age on this one, but it was still bid up to $167.47. These old divers are, in my opinion, undervalued by collectors.
Casio collectors will find this old titanium TW-5600 very intriguing. It’s a cool watch. Almost looks like a metal version of the venerable DW-5600. It sold for $152.50.
Yours truly put in a serious bid for this M795 Scubamster. I was glad to have finally found one in decent condition. My paypal account was dinged $317.44!
Last watch of the installment is a very early Seiko Solar watch. It looked to be in fine condition and attracted many buyers. It sold for $311.05. I’d be curious if anyone knows if this watch pre-dates Citizen’s early Crystron solars.
March 7th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Excellent post as usual, Pete. I was thinking very long and hard about the Skyliner above but decided that it was enough to have the black version.
The Citizen Alarm watch was also very interesting. It is an early version but it (at least) has the wrong crowns, which would have been one of the reasons for the low price. They usually sell for two or three times as much.
I also got a Pulsemeter a few weeks ago at roughly JPY 3000. A fantastic price for a really fun watch. The pulsemeter function is much more accurate than I expected.
/ martback
March 7th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Pete…you don’t realize how much pleasure these
articles on GMTplusnine gives, especially since
the stock market has been generally down for at
least 4 months. Thanks a lot.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Hi martback. I suspected those crowns on that Citizen were incorrect. Thanks for confirming. It really is a fine looking watch isn’t it? And just like you, I was very tempted to bid on that Skyliner. It was a great looking example.
blackdial, thanks for the kind words, it’s always nice to know that people are enjoying GMT+9.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Congrats on the M795 Pete, that’s a neat dive watch!
The titanium Casio above it is actually a TW-7000 and probably among the first titanium watches Casio ever made. Not a bad price at $150.
Love to know more about that Seiko Spectrum Ink model…
March 7th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
nice pete. i had my eye on 2-3 watches and was ready to bid until i saw this one guy who scoops everything up there. sigh, maybe one day he runs out of yen
March 7th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Hi Casiophile. Thanks for clarifying the TW-7000 information. The Seiko Spectrum Ink was a limited edition model of 500 produced in 2005. It utilized some new e-ink technology developed by Epson which displays with significantly more contrast than standard LCD technology. Battery drain is also supposed to be significantly lower as well. Since then, Seiko has released at least one other E-ink watch (a woman’s bracelet model) which was also pretty expensive.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:30 am
Hello Petew,
A friend of me in Japan showed me once a similar Birdlife Protrek. It is the model with the pedometer (counting footsteps) isn’t it. The TW-5600 is very interesting. It seems to have indeed the same module as the DW-5600,
Cheers,
Sjors