Horological Meandering

I've unfortunately managed to endow it with a couple of scratches in the meantime but the overall shape for something around 45 years old is still good enough And a very fitting companion to Trieste IMHO.

Armed with my Olloclip, I also had to throw in some macros - finally seeing the details up close like I intended to for a long while. At 10x the lens looks reasonably clean for something not from the absolute premium end of the spectrum and for the age. You can also see a bit of the detail of the funky hour markers.

The day and date discs are grained and form a slight contrast to the dial, if looked at very closely.

The hands are reasonably finished overall, just the back end of the minute hand seems to have been chewed, rather than cut off Not my doing, I promise And only visible at 15x magnification.

Here another detail of the hour markers. Quite a complex shape, with a flat, black painted surface to start with, a curved one next and a triangular flat one rising again from it for the end. A small luminous dot on the end. Not that the luminosity is long lasting (it will work on the hands for around 15 minutes but the dots fade into darkness within three or four. I guess after 45 years the effect would naturally be a lot less than on a brand new watch...

The five dots of the brand logo (signifying their patented use of ball bearings for the automatic movements) are to be found consistently - on the dial, on the clasp (here) and on the crown (below). Original lizard skin strap.

Here the crown with the same treatment and the different finishes of the side and top of the case. The polished surfaces are not quite to Grand Seiko standards but again - age and price range

And a signature Blomman shot to finish the detail journey off

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