cazalea
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OBSCURE SEIKO OF THE DAY Thread 4 - please join in
This is the 4th of 7 threads to encourage us to find Seiko products and post them on this forum. Anything goes - the more obscure your timekeeper, the better. ( I say that because I've got plenty of odd Seiko items in my house.) But you might also have a few if you look. So please join us with a photo and a paragraph about your Seiko. If you have more than one, come back again this week and share it too.
Now I am a bit embarrassed to say I have no idea when or where I bought this time clock - probably on eBay - but I know why I bought it. I'd made the decision to start collecting Seikos, and the more obscure the Seiko, the better (I quickly recanted from this philosophy).
It has a key to keep employees from fiddling with its timekeeping accuracy.
Setting this clock (like many Seikos) is far from intuitive - and I have to find the manual to do it. Luckily with the DIP switches set correctly, and a few hundred presses of the touch switches, anyone can do it. A memory keeps it going for a day or so if power fails or you have to move the clock.
While taking these photos I punched about 10 mock time cards because I was having so much fun I would forget to press the shutter on the camera. It has a really vicious and fast print head that darts out and back, inscribing your paper.
Here's the result.
This is should be a warning for companies to carefully define their core business - if your management team says we make "timekeeping devices" of any sort, you end up with things like this time clock.
As well as this slave clock on a ship;
or this sports timer in the stadium;
or this satellite watch;
and this sonnerie watch.
(Those last four are NOT mine, of course)
What kind of Seikos have you found in your house today?
Cheers,
Cazalea
This message has been edited by cazalea on 2015-05-21 16:54:42
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That' true.
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