Brilliant Vintage Seiko 6138-8020 Panda Chronograph Automatic Wristwatch.
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All-time favorites among Seiko collectors, original white Pandas are becoming a rare sight.
Their sporty, versatile style, modern sizing, and great period styling are all iconic traits and one's that are highly sought after.
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Dating this Watch
Using the Serial Numbers on the Case back, we can accurately date this to June 1977.
Movement
Superb quality Seiko Calibre 6138B Automatic Movement with 30 Min Chronograph and 12 hour Pillar Wheel.
English-Arabic Date Wheel. This is Quick set by pulling the Crown out to position 2, you can flick through the Day and Date wheels by toggling anti clockwise and vice versa.
Timekeeping
*FULLY Professionally Serviced by us at GungaDin Watches*
The Movement is wonderful and Clean whilst ticking away strongly and keeping Good time, for such a Vintage movement, having been FULLY PROFESSIONALLY serviced by our fantastic in-house Watchmaker. You will receive a copy of the Service receipt please keep this for your records/warranty.
Covered by our 3 month Warranty, which is free with all purchases that have been serviced by us.
Dial
Awesome Untouched Vintage Panda Dial.
A vertical bicompax layout and compact day and date mechanism (with the day wheel in two languages, here English and Arabic) offer a unique look to start. But the dial also has a wonderful subtle, almost linen-texture that offers a lot of depth, especially with the polished applied markers and logo. Add a black internal tachymeter bezel and a pair of black syringe hands and you've got one of the best looking watches to come out in the 70s and one of the best to ever come out of Japan.
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JAPAN 6138 -8040T
The Dial is in Awesome Vintage Condition, with no marks at all!
Excellent Example.
You will be very hard pressed to find a better Condition Dial.
This is the original Untouched 44 year old Dial that left the Seiko Factory back in June 1977.
THIS IS NOT A REDIAL!!!!
Case
Solid Seiko Stainless Steel Case.
The Case is in good condition for its age, with some small dings and some minor age related Scratches.
The edges are still nice and legible, very importantly, never polished.
The Cool Tachy Ring is in beautiful condition.
Case-back markings still highly visible. Fitted with a new Gasket.
Case approx. measures in at:
Diameter: 41mm
Diameter with Crown: 42.6mm
End of lug to lug: 45.75mm
Lug Spacing: 19mm
Disclaimer: Water Resistance NOT Guaranteed, it is now a Vintage Timepiece, it has just been retightened, it has NOT been resealed, so we cannot offer any Guarantees on Waterproofing and if you wish to Submerge this Watch then you will need to get the Case properly resealed before doing so to take advantage of its Resistance.
Hands, Crystal, Pushers and Crown
Original Syringe Handset, in very nice Vintage order.
Original Crown in good nick. New Gasket has been fitted
Pushers are Original and in very nice order. New Gaskets have been fitted.
Original Crystal prior to Service was badly Scratched, so our Watchmaker fitted a new Correct Crystal as part of the Service.
Strap
On a Stainless Steel Seiko Jubilee Bracelet, which looks absolutely fantastic.
The Bracelet is in nice Order.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS BRACELET FITS UP TO APPROX. 7.8 INCH WRIST WITH NO SPARE LINKS.
Comes with a GungaDin Watch Box as Pictured.