Want one
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Heck of a nice deal! G-shocks are great.
I’ve worn one for a few years, had a bunch of other watches including fairly expensive boutique dive watches, but the last five years I always find myself resignedly strapping on the Apple Watch.
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Great find Harry!
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I retired last month after 34 years with the company and they gave me this watch. Here it is in front of the oil painting I have above my desk at home.
Someone did there research well.
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Mate, that is awesome. It must have been great to work with such a caring bunch.
Now you are retired, you will wonder however you had the time for full-time work… I’m 12 months in and busier than ever 
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Very nice!
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Thanks mate. They are a great bunch. I reckon with a bit of practice I’ll get this retirement caper down pat.
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I have a (way too) expensive watch collection. My favorite of the bunch is a Citizen Eco-Drive I bought in Japan in 2004. (They’ve sold nothing like it since). It’s a classic Commando. The case is a single chunk of titanium. Sapphire chrystal. To my great regret, for years I thought I had lost it. Then one day I found it in a box. After a week under a lamp it would not move. I then put it in direct sunlight for a day and finally it “ticked” once more. (Doesn’t tick actually.) That was years ago and the watch is still perfect. Not a scratch despite multiple hash runs and attempts up Shasta, Rainier and karst walls at Pra Nang. When my daughter became an EMT at 16 she needed a watch with a sweep second hand. Now it’s hers. I tried to bribe it back with a plastic Swatch/Omega Speedmaster but she was smart enough not to take the bait. I am pretty proud to see her use the Citizen as a true professional watch. Normally a watch with a long life has a cool history and gets passed down to something less. But this watch got passed down to something more.
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^^^^^^
OK you got me. It wasn’t lost in a “box”.
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Stopped wearing them many years ago (2006 IIRC) when the arthritis got into my wrists. Too much pain.
I do have many watches littered around the house, some of which I still use as stop watches and some are set to chime on each hour so I can keep a mental note of how far through the day we are.
I bought a pocket watch at our local market a couple of years ago:
It’s a nice bit of kit, but I realised it was just too heavy and starts wearing through my pockets, so has to stay at home most of the time and like most here, I just use my phone for timekeeping.
Best one I owned was purchased from Moscow. It was not cheap! It was one of a special edition “MiG-29” set. The story given was that the Russians had bought up the factory machinery from Switzerland when everyone was going Quartz, to make top quality chronographics for their pilots - specifically the MiG-29 pilots, so that they wouldn’t interfere with any sensitive electronics on board the fighter.
The sets were 3 watches pilot was gold, something else was silver - don’t remember which, and flight engineer was brushed aluminium. They were all the same price, but the gold ones were sold out at the time I came across the advert, and I preferred the aluminium one over silver, so that’s what I bought.
I used it for timing in my running training and marathons - it was a fantastic bit of kit. The stopwatch stopped working at some stage and when I got to the UK I went to a jewellers who instantly offered me £300 for it - despite having lost the certificate. So I took the money 
I still have the pouch, though…
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I shall be wearing this in my waistcoat at the Festival of Rememberance in the Royal Albert Hall, London on Saturday.
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Beautifull 
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That is a fine timepiece Scoop.
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I am overjoyed to have ‘found’ this. I have been hunting high and low for years.
It was left to me by my Grandfather, it was his retirement watch.
It (obviously) needs a new battery, so I will be taking it to a jewellers and also to get it appraised for insurance purposes. Searching the serial numbers etc have yielded nothing concrete other than a possible year of manufacture.
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Beautiful! Glad you found it.
There are several watch sites that might be able to help you. Generally, “What’s this worth?” posts are discouraged but, if you frame it nicely, you will at least likely find out something about the series and maybe history of the watch.
Unless that is real gold, with a quartz movement, it may not command a princely sum. But, considering its age, you would likely need an actual appraisal to be accepted by insurance, anyway.
Of course, there’s zero accounting there for wearing your Grandpa’s watch! Very cool.
Oh, I’d recommend starting with Watchuseek dot com, which has both a Seiko and a high accuracy quartz forum.
If you want, you can PM me and I’ll post a pic on the site and you can see what they say.
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A couple of months ago I saw what might be the coolest watch I’ve held in my own hands. It belonged to a (male) flight attendant who is American of German background. A few years ago his great uncle died and he was invited to Hamburg for the funeral and the parceling out the very small estate. His 1940 German infantry watch was not really wanted by any of the relatives residing in Germany so my co-worker was allowed to take it! A jeweler in PA cleaned it and replaced a spring. With a new strap it looks fantastic (as infantry watches almost always do) and works with surprising accuracy after all these years.
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I remember precisely when I stopped wearing a wristwatch. It was when I got my first smartphone back in 2009. I never wore a watch for “fashion” reasons.
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Definitely a quartz movement. The strap/band is obviously gold plated. The case however is possibly solid gold - doesn’t have a hallmark but there is a separate serial number (a Z followed by 4 digits) stamped into the case.
I tried about half a dozen different sites (including the Seiko website) where I could enter the serial number, but nada, zilch… Except that it was probably made in 1980.
A reverse image search only returned a single identical watch (cream dial with Roman numerals) from a website that sold one eight years ago but doesn’t list a price.
PM sent.
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