The ONE and ONLY WRUW thread - Part Deux !

[Seiko7A38]

I'm giving the 'Bling-meister' a long overdue outing this morning - my FRED Force 10 7A38. Checking back through this thread, it seems I only wore it once in April last year.

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[Seiko7A38]

I'm delving into one of my collection boxes which I reorganised last year. This one now contains all my Seiko 7A38-728x variants. I'll try and choose a few different watches from the ones I usually post. Starting off with a common-or-garden stainless 7A38-7280 SAA119J. I have quite a few of these. This tidy example has been in my collection since March 2009.

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Hah ! Typical ! It's the same watch I last posted in August 2022. (More naturally lit in this photo)

[Seiko7A38]

I've learned that when delving into a collection box that hasn't been opened in a while, it's not unusual to find at least a couple of watches needing replacement batteries. Further along the same row as that stainless 7A38-7280, I found this similar appearing, but almost NOS condition stainless 7A38-7289 SAA109J (US market) doing the 'two-second two-step'. This pristine example has been in my collection since June 2019 - probably the last one of these that I bought.

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[Seiko7A38]

I'm wearing this common-or-garden two-tone 7A38-728A SAA122J this morning.

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Yeah, I know what I wrote a couple of posts back: about trying to choose a few different watches from the ones I usually post. This one's been posted in the WRUW thread at least twice before. See here and here. I've owned it since July 2009. It's probably one of the cheapest 7A38's in my collection - it cost me all of £30.50 back then. But that's the point I'm trying to make - about the ridiculous price hiking that's rife on eBay. There's currently one of these 7A38-728A's listed on eBay Italy as a 10-day auction, with an opening bid price of €1300 Euros. (Item # 314622645903) Utter Lunacy !

[Seiko7A38]

Afternoon swap for this mint condition 7A38-728A SAA128J (German market model) - without the gold sub-dial rings.

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[Seiko7A38]

Wearing this almost mint two-tone 7A38-7280 SAA120J on another appropriate typically grey overcast morning.

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[Seiko7A38]

Wearing this blingy gold-tone 7A38-728A this morning. SAA130J is a relatively scarce German market model. I've never posted a wrist shot of this watch in this forum's WRUW thread before. There is mention made of the 7A28-728A SAA130J in another thread, here, where I re-posted an old wrist shot I took over 10 years ago in April 2013. I remember why now - it's not the easiest watch to photograph.

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[Seiko7A38]

Another blingy one from the same row in the collection box - my almost mint condition gold-tone 7A38-7280 SAA124J.

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[Seiko7A38]

At the risk of repeating myself (I probably would have typed exactly the same thing) ....

Wearing another Yema Spationaute III Aragatz on this blue SATurday morning. This one's a very early first year production example (serial # 1 004), fitted with a RIOS shark strap. I'm sure I've posted it a couple of times before.

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[Seiko7A38]

Wearing this tidy Yema Spationaute III 38mm 'reduced' model # N80A696 this morning. This one is my most recently acquired example (off eBay France in November 2020) and is fitted with the original Yema 'marron' shark strap.

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Edit: Funny coincidence. Last time I posted a wrist shot of this one, here nearly 2 years ago, the date was also SUN 11.

[jamesam]

Like the model # N80A696 a lot. But have never seen one posted for sale. Not sure if I’d like the fact that its a reduced size

[Seiko7A38]

I got my stainless 7A38-7090 SAA035J out of the watch box this morning. I really can't remember when I last wore it.

I can now. It was almost exactly two years ago today. This time it needed a replacement battery fitting first.

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[Seiko7A38]

Another of these smaller diameter (36mm Ø) variants this morning - and just to show that not all the watches in my collection are in pristine condition (a couple, like this, far from it), here's my well-worn two-tone 7A38-7090 SAA036J.
I haven't ever posted it in this forum's WRUW thread before and I can only find one instance in the old archived forum's WRUW thread, here on page 58, back in September 2016, not long after I bought it. I probably haven't worn it since; the battery needed replacing, which I did yesterday. I really need to find myself another better condition example.

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[Seiko7A38]

Continuing with the 'Does my wrist look fat in this? theme - black is supposed to be slimming, after all. This morning I'm wearing the third of my small (36mm) diameter 7A38's - a very tidy example of the black chrome 7A38-7100 SAA038J, which has been in my collection since May 2010. I must admit, this is another watch that I hardly ever wear; hence the reason the vulnerable black coating has hardly had a chance to deteriorate. Looks like the last time I wore it was two years ago (see this earlier WRUW post). Like the previous two watches, it also needed a replacement battery fitting.

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[Seiko7A38]

Wearing my similarly dialed almost mint black chromed 7A38-7180 SAA055J this morning.

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Bit of a photographic fail on my part. I was hoping to show the similarity between the 7A38-7090's black and gold 710L dial and that of it's larger 7A38-7180 sibling. (They are actually different part numbers 710LXB14 vs 710LXB24). But even in my preferred shady location, the sunlight was just too bright this morning.

[Seiko7A38]

Wearing this tidy example of the two-tone 7A38-7190 SAA054J this morning.

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As they're a relatively common variant, I was puzzled that this is the only example in my collection (since June 2010). However checking my archive records, I appear to have had three others pass through my hands in 2009. I remember reselling one that I'd re-finished and I think the others were broken up for parts. Didn't seem to matter in those days, particulary bearing in mind the prices I paid for them: €25.50, $27 and $49. This one I kept cost a little more; $99.

[Seiko7A38]

Wearing this NOS condition Yema Spationaute III Aragatz, fitted with a non-original REWA 'Rally' strap, on this somewhat grey overcast blue SATurday morning. This is the fourth time this example has appeared in this forum's WRUW thread. Last time was a little over a year ago.

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[Seiko7A38]

I decided to wear this Yema N8 Flygraf for a change. No other reason than it needed the battery replacing this morning.

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[Seiko7A38]

I'm wearing this common-or-garden stainless 7A38-7190 SAA053J this morning. This is the better condition of two in my collection. Don't think I've posted a photo of this one in this forum's WRUW thread before (my other example is here).

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[Seiko7A38]

As a contrast, I'm wearing this NOS condition gold-tone 7A38-7190 SAA056J this morning.

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