It’s hardly been worn, this watch – maybe someone kept all the paperwork and didn’t like the watch much so didn’t wear it… or they liked it too much to wear it often, who knows…Īlthough it was sold in 1975, it was produced in October 1972 so may have sat on the shelf for a while in the jewellers.Book Suggestions After Magriel (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen+, Aug 2000) Annotated matches (Walter Trice, Jan 2000) Best books from the bot era (Chuck Bower+, Nov 2007) Best next step (Gregg Cattanach+, July 2002) Bibliography (Carl Tait, Apr 2000) Books for advanced players (Edward D. A special birthday present for someone, maybe? This particular watch was a lucky find – described in an auction as “with box and some papers”, it came with everything including the original till receipt – clearly a cherished item, sold by Catisfield Jewellery Store, 24 Catisfield Lane, Fareham, on 11th/12th April 1975 for £46.80. Push the crown back in, wind it and then pull out the alarm button at the top.
The timing movement itself is automatic, and the mechanism to ring the alarm is driven by a hand-wound spring – so to set the alarm, you pull the crown out one stop and rotate the outer bezel (with the red marker, in this instance) to point to the time you want the alarm to ring. Introduced in Japan in 1966, but popularised outside in the early 1970s, these watches were produced until 1978/79. Seiko had a premium range called the Bell-Matic. The basic premise is, in 1972 (say), if you wanted a watch which would remind you of something, there were no cheapie quartz things to fall back on… so you bought one of a variety of watches with a mechanical alarm. There’s something about Bell-Matics that I can’t help myself but collect and evangelise them.
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