Seiko skx007k (Singapore model)

I purchased this in early 2003 and it has been my daily wear watch ever since. I replaced the original Seiko bracelet with an aftermarket solid link bracelet so I still have a perfect original bracelet in the box.

The aftermarket bracelet is a 22mm Hadley Roma (I think) and it was originally a Straight end bracelet.

Here is a photo of what it looked like when it arrived.

Courtesy, GlobalWatchBand.com

I also ordered a pair of 22mm curved end links when I ordered the bracelet.

As you can see the straight end bracelet won't fit on a curved end link so the "ears" on the straight end had to be sawed off with a Dremel and a cutoff wheel so they would fit in the 22mm curved end links. This however creates a "real" 22mm solid link bracelet as apposed to the 20mm bracelets sold with 22mm end links and passed off as 22mm bracelets that you usually find on the internet. Why you can't just get a good 22mm solid link bracelet is beyond me.

I had a paragraph here about the spring bars wearing on the watch case but after further investigation I discovered that the OEM type spring bar would never have caused wear at all. There is a photo below that shows the wear in the spring bar holes on the lugs of the watch. its really very minor wear and when the OEM spring bar is used even now there is no slop in the spring bar .. when using aftermarket bracelets like I am using you simply have to make sure that the end links are properly tensioned!

Now in defense of all stainless steel spring bars, properly adjusting the end links so that there is always a little tension on the spring bars will keep the spring bars from causing wear like this but most of us don't pay as much attention to our beat around watch as we should.

For me at least the cheaper spring bars are in order I would rather change my spring bars every two years than throw away a watch case every three or four years.

Now as far as the watch goes, I have had no problems with it what so ever!

It's just now getting broke in to where its consistently accurate, when I first got it ran just a tiny bit slow but it seems to have settled down now and seems to be accurate to within a couple minutes a month.

In some of the photos below you can see that the crystal has some fine scratches in it which are not from normal wear, I managed to do that with a 3m pad and some abrasive when I was cleaning up the watch and not paying attention to what I was doing. There are also two welding slag burns on the crystal that I put in it right after I got the watch, argh!

I can't say enough about this watch I would buy another one without even thinking about it.

Its indestructible, the hands and hour markers are so luminous that in the right circumstances you can use the watch as a flashlight!

The shape of the case is not accidental, in most situations when you bang it on something it will glance off without leaving a mark... on the watch that is. The bezel has a raised edge that protects the bezel insert from most impacts too. I don't know if you would call it dressy but I never take it off .. except to shower... go figure I'm a creature of habit.

Seriously though if my watch is ever 200 meters under water I guarantee I won't be concerned about weather or not its still working.

I have added two new photos at the bottom and some notes about the photos bellow too.

There are two photos above of the 007 and an a35. Both watches have just had the movements upgraded to the 23 Jewel 7s36 movements which just happen to be interchangeable with the original 21 Jewel 7s26 movements!

Also I have upgraded the crystal on my 007,In the last two photos you can see that it also looks slightly different.

The new crystal is a Generic crystal and not a Seiko replacement one. This was intentional although I have a replacement Seiko crystal for it I wanted to see what the 007 would look like without the beveled edge crystal from Seiko. It is a very subtle difference but I think its a positive one. The watch looks a little less "dressy" and a little more "I'm all business" with the Generic crystal in it.