#WHERE TO FIND SEIKO MODEL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER#

While the release of the 6139 caliber in 1969 garners all of the praise for being the first production automatic chronograph, in my opinion, the related 6138, also from Suwa, is the more impressive movement. Today, we associate quartz watches with affordability and mechanical watches with luxury, however 50 years ago, the exact opposite was true. Quartz watches were available but were expensive and cost many times more than their mechanical brethren. However, at the turn of the 1970s, mechanical watches were definitely still in vogue at Seiko. A decade that will see Seiko reduce its mechanical watch output to virtually zero and kill off some of its most famous mechanical timepieces. The end of the last guide left us on Christmas Day 1969 at the dawn of the quartz revolution. It will come as no surprise then, to find some quartz watches highlighted in the following decade. This makes them ideal candidates to search out for a birth year watch or even a birth month watch.

The first digit denotes the year of the decade in which the watch was made and the second digit denotes the month of manufacture: 1-9 and then 0, N, D corresponding to the 12 months of the year.

#WHERE TO FIND SEIKO MODEL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER#

In our previous installment on Seiko watches from the 1960s, we saw how the serial number of each Seiko watch can be used to indicate the month and year of its manufacture. Collector GuideBirth-Year Seiko Watches: 1970-1979

Where to find seiko model number