{"id":34271,"date":"2023-12-02T09:03:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T16:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=34271"},"modified":"2023-12-03T07:17:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T14:17:06","slug":"its-a-fake-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=34271","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Fake!!! (Part III)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My favorite wristwatch, a Seiko Donna bought for me in 1978, has been on a journey (previous posts here<\/a><\/strong> and here<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Left to right:<\/p>\n

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  • 2021, before restoration: rusted and not running<\/li>\n
  • 2022, after restoration: working but with bogus replacement dial<\/li>\n
  • 2023, after replacing the bogus dial with a correct reproduction dial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The shop I sent it to last year, Total Watch Repair in Encino, California, did a great job getting it running again, especially since it had water damage and rust and hadn’t worked since 2001. But they slipped a non-Seiko aftermarket dial in on me. When I got the watch back I noticed the odd fading around the sub-dial but didn’t catch the missing Seiko identifying text at 7:30 and 4:30, and was unaware it was a bogus dial until a couple of months ago, when a Seiko fanatic spotted it on a photo I posted to a watch collectors’ group on Facebook.<\/p>\n

    I bought a reproduction dial from a specialist in parts for old Seikos and had it fixed, although that took a while … a friend in Oregon tackled the job initially but was unable to get the hands back on, and in the end I had to take it to a local watch repair shop.<\/p>\n

    It’s fixed now, with a dial identical to the one it came with. Of course the watch is no longer 100% original, which to Seiko collectors is probably a bad thing, but I’m happy. I do notice a bit of black gasket intruding onto the inner bezel near the one o’clock mark, but I see that in photos of other old Pogues and can live with it … god knows I’ve thrown enough money at this old watch, far more than it’s worth (me excepted … it’s worth it to me, but I’ve hit my limit).<\/p>\n

    At this point it’s increasingly apparent the watch will outlive me, so it’s journey has only just begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    At this point it’s increasingly apparent the watch will outlive me, so it’s journey has only just begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4432,18,2],"tags":[4053],"class_list":["post-34271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-seiko","category-consumerism","category-personal","tag-bigseikolittledick-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34276,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34271\/revisions\/34276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}