Being a Seiko-fan it’s a wonder I haven’t been more active on forums
like The Seiko and Citizen Watch Forum (SCWF). I’ve only used it as a source of
knowledge but haven’t participated in any discussions. But in August 2012
I came across this SBBN013 to a very reasonable price in their for sale section. It was complete with box
and papers and located in the UK. I figured I was already too late to grab it
and even if I wasn’t the seller probably would prefer to sell it to some well know
SCWF-member instead of me with an almost none existing post count. But I was
lucky this time and I got to buy the SBBN013, also referred to as the Darth
Tuna.
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| #144 - The Seiko SBBN013. |
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| Glowing lume in daylight. Impressive! |
I just love the quartz Tuna’s. They are amazing watches for diving! This one was
the biggest Tuna I’d had so far but it was still very wearable. I particularly
loved the large gray hands and the lume was of course marvelous. But then I got
scared. I don’t remember who it was but someone told me to be careful about not
hitting the ceramic shroud into anything hard or it might crack straight
through. I found a couple of pictures of cracked shrouds and it didn’t look too funny. So my new
favorite tool watch turned out to be less toolier than I thought it was. What
could I do? That didn’t work for me. I later discovered that I could have
switched the ceramic shroud to a plastic one but I wonder how good it would have looked.
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| Having pancakes for breakfast at Café Foam in Stockholm. |
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