I remember the first time I saw a Tissot Seastar diver. It was the last of
April, quite a special day when you come from the university town of Uppsala,
and I have no idea of what year it was. I just remember I saw this guy hanging
around with our crowd among thousands of drunk students and he was wearing a
big dive watch on a black rubber strap that I didn't recognized. It turned out
to be a Tissot. I thought it looked quite cool and I didn’t even know back then
that Tissot made that kind of watches. I mostly associated them with dress
watches. Several years later back in 2012 I came across a for sale ad from a
person selling a whole bunch of dive watches. Among them were a Citizen
Aqualand with an analog depth meter and this Tissot Seastar. The dial of the
Tissot was a little worn around the edges but the watch was in an overall decent
condition so the guy gave me a good price if I agreed to buy both of them
which I did. I later did some research about the Seastar's and discovered that the
one I had seen earlier on that guy’s wrist had been a 300m automatic version (The
Seastar 1000) while the one I’d just bought was the 200m quartz version (The
Seastar 660).
Back at work a colleague of mine, who also had an interest in watches (just
not as severe as my obsession), really liked the Tissot and I let him have it
for the same price I'd paid for it. He still wears it today and have had it
serviced with a new dial. I had it for such a short time that I never took a picture of it but I asked him the other day if I could take a photo of it for my blog which he was totally fine with. Thank you Pontus!
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| #129 - The Tissot Seastar 660. |
I used to keep an eye open for a used Seastar 300m. I think they’re quite
cool but the greenish lume makes me a little sick. It’s not likely I would pick
one up today unless it’s a true catch. I recently saw one with a blue dial
which was quite cheap but it was too much of a wreck for me wanting to fix it.
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