Pretty much three times a week I’ll randomly google to see if any decent deals on this bad boy. Been a while since anything decent.
This is a pretty ok price for the practically universally loved Seiko Panda. Only a little higher than ATL.
You may ask why do you need a chronograph/tachymeter type watch - Well:
Imagine you're sittting in the passenger seat of a car. Your crazy ex wife has kidnapped you in the morning and keeps saying you'll "go to disneyland" together. You see a road sign pass by. Gas station, 3 miles. Then there's a second one coming up: gas station, 2 miles.
Forgetting that this is why she left you, you sneakily start the chronograph on your Seiko Speedtimer SSC813P just as you pass the sign.
And wouldn't you know it, there's the sign again. Gas station, 1 mile. You stop the chrono right as you pass it and check the reading. 120. She's driving 120 mph. Jesus Christ. You realize, if you had a bird's eye view of the situation, you could have done the same thing between two points of known distance. That is why chronographs were popular at racing tracks, measuring the speeds of passing cars. You could even do it in metric, if you picked two points a km apart instead.
Excitedly, you turn to your ex wife, trying to explain what you just did. She just stares at you with an empty gaze, lips quivering. "Hey, uh, honey. Eyes in the road!" "Why… why are you like this?"
The crash is over in seconds. When you come to, you're in an ambulance. They tell you to stay calm, you were amazingly lucky. Just a concussion and a few broken ribs. Through a haze of painkillers, you see street lamps passing in the small, high windows of the car. How many of those are in a mile again? Smiling, you start the chrono.
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Features
Crystal/Lens - Curved Sapphire
Diameter - 39mm
Band width -
Case Thickness - 13.3mm
Seiko Solar V192 Movement
Small Second Hand
Resuming Electric Power generation
Water resistant - 100 Metres
3 Year warranty from Seiko (Australia)
Great story for a great watch. My daily driver.