My one and only watch from the Sportura series; The Seiko SKA511. The Kinetic movement is a hybrid
between an automatic and a quartz watch. Easily explained the movement has a
rotor like an automatic watch which is generating power and charges a battery
when it’s being wound up. I’ve never liked the Kinetic’s mainly because of the
button placed at 2 o’clock. This is the power reserve button that lets you know
how much energy is stored in the battery. The SKA511, a.k.a. The Lightsaber which
I’ve read a few times it’s being called (the name doesn’t seem to have stuck
though), was actually the first Kinetic dive watch I thought was good looking
enough to be worth trying out and I found a cheap one on eBay in late February
2012. I remember it being quite large. It must have measured around 43-45mm and
the lugs were quite long too. It didn’t fit my wrist very good at all. It had a
nice feature though; the long diver extension clasp. It made the bracelet big
enough for me to slip it over my cast after my skiing accident which was very
handy!
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| #120 - The Seiko SKA511. |
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| Wrist shot with the cast. |
I sold the SKA511 quite quickly and I never thought of buying another
Kinetic again until last year when I discovered the SUN021, which is far from
great looking, but like before, it was good looking enough for me to be willing
to give it a try. More on that one later but I can tell you that I should have learnt from this mistake. For some reason the majority of
the Kinetic’s doesn’t speak to me and frankly I find almost all of them to be a
bunch of ugly misfits.
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