Product Description

SEIKO 5 - the meaning of the "5" A great marketer had the idea in the 70ies: to be a SEIKO 5, the watch has to have the following 5 (five) attributes (thus the name SEIKO 5): 1. Automatic, 2. Water resistant, 3. Shock resistant, 4. Date, 5. Day. Please note that some SEIKO 5's are in fact SEIKO 4's, if the "Day" function is omitted, then the Caliber 7S25 is used. The only difference to the normally found 7S26 is the omission of the day wheel. Also re-issues of SEIKO 5 Sports often use the 7S36 caliber. Again the 7S36 is similar to the most popular 7S26, yet it features 23 Jewels as opposed to the 21 Jewels in the 7S26. Please note that all these movements beat at a rate of 21'600 bph (beats per hour) or 6 bps (beats per second). As a comparison, an ETA 2824-2 beats at 28'800 bph or 8 bps. A Miyota 82xx beats at 21'600 bph. Why do I mention these three movements? Because they are found in probably 80% of all inexpensive automatic wrist watches. A market share that is huge, yet challenged these days (2006) by an increasing share of inexpensive China Made automatic movements An automatic watch (also called a self-winding watch) is a mechanical watch, typically with a balance wheel escapement, whose mainspring is wound by the motion of the wearer's arm, instead of having to be wound manually every day. Whereas a quartz watch is powered by electricity, a mechanical watch is powered by a mainspring which must be rewound for the watch to keep time

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2427 in Watches
• Brand: Seiko
• Model: SYM798
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Dial window material: Hardlex
• Movement type: automatic-self-wind
• Water-resistant to 30 meters

Features

• Japan 21 Jewels Automatic Self Winding Movement (Caliber 7S26)
• Stainless Steel Case and Band with Push Button Deployment Clasp
• Hardlex Mineral Crystal, Day/Date Display with Spanish Option, Luminous Gold Tone Hands and Markers
• Case Size: 26mm Diameter, 10mm Thickness
• Water Resistant - 30M

Customer Reviews

Great Watch!
After reading what someone else wrote about this watch I was expecting it to be large. But the face is just the right size for my petite wrist. I do need to size the band. I received the watch and was extremely pleased. It can be casual and dressy. I love it!

An Affordable Best Buy
This is my second self-winding Seiko watch. I have had the first one for years and it has been dropped in water (water resistant) bashed into the side of the Kyak, gone snorkeling in the Cayman Islands and whatever could happen to it, it just keeps on tickin" but after ten years, it is not a "dress-up" watch, so I got a new one and this is even prettier than the first one. I love wearing it and still have a back up for rough duty!

sleep on it
a gift to give,....looks nice...a bit heavy...links removed at jewelers....time set...gift giving....well received...happy with purchase..
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until the next day when the time & date needed to be reset, and the next day, and the next..

It's a nice watch if you don't take it off. If you remove it for any length of time over???..limit uncertain, maybe 12 hours? Your back resetting time/date all over again.

I wish I knew it's limitations before I purchased it, I would have looked elsewhere.