Seiko 7A38 - by the numbers

A little history about my 7A28-7020.

I spotted it in my local jewelers back in '85, and asked whether I could have it for my 18th Birthday.

It was everday wear for the next 10 years until it failed, and the jewelers said it was unrepairable due to water damage.

For the next 20 years it lived in a draw, with other discarded watches that had died, including my first casio digital watch from junior school in the 70's!

Then a few years ago while searching for a local watch repairer to replace a battery in my TAG Kirium F1, I stumbled upon Brian who has a small company called Time Repairs just outside Oldham, who specialised in Seiko watches along with more normal work.

When I took my TAG in for the battery replacement, I showed him my Seiko, and he immediately took the back off to have a look. Even though a bit of a mess, he checked if he could get a 'pulse', and he declared he could repair it. 

It needed a lot of work, as well as work on the internals, new glass, full clean and case polish, reclaimed clasp (he sourced a gold one and polished off the gold!) after several months, and quiet a few £00's, I got her back!

Worth every penny, to me, more valuable than my TAG and other more expensive watches!

The funny thing is, even though I have had her from new, until a few years ago I never knew of the James Bond connection!

Cheers,

Mike.

A Great story, thanks for sharing      !

I'm suprised I didn't wear the watch out, or at least the buttons out, I can remember when bored my favourite game was starting and stopping the chronograph and seeing how many time I could stop at exacting the same 10th of a second, quite addictive!