Posted by: petew

I’ve said it many times.  I envy those collectors who can maintain a focussed and tidy collection.  My problem is that I just love watches.  All styles appeal to me and I’m just not capable of limiting my collection to one or two themes.  My last two purchases are a perfect example of this.  A dressy Seiko Credor Pacifique and an audacious Casio G-Shock Cockpit GW-3000.

The Credor is an older watch dating back to 2004.  It was part of the Pacifique series of watches, which contained high accuracy (+-10 seconds per year) quartz movements.  Those who collect vintage Seikos will smile at the retro caseback this series of watches utilized.

This watch actually has a screw in crown and is water resistant to 200 meters.  The GCAX watch lineup from this period also contained some diver models.

The Credor is very dressy and elegant.  It wears much smaller than its 37mm width would suggest.  Some of that is probably due to the thin case which measures out to just under 10mm.  A domed sapphire crystal completes the look.

The Casio GW-3000 could not be more different in appearance than the Credor.  It’s big, bulky, plastic and geeky.  While the Credor is a traditional time and date watch, the Casio uses a multi function radio control module.  In the chronograph mode, the second hand whirls around the dial once per second.  I could never picture a Credor doing that.

Like the Credor, the crystal on the Casio is slightly domed.  However, I don’t think it’s made of sapphire.  The case is a combination of plastics and metal.

The technology in the Credor movement is related to ultra high accuracy timekeeping.  With the Casio, the “Tough Movement” contains optical sensors which monitor the hands position on the dial relative to the actual time.  If a sudden shock knocked the hands out of alignment, the sensors could relay this information to the computer which then could independently reset both the hour and minute hands to their correct relative positions.  The watch has been tested to handle 15g’s of force.

These two watches are as different as can be yet not surprisingly to me, each has managed to find its way into my collection.

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