Time to post some new pictures of this watch, the other ones are in the tropical Dial thread. Anyway, it is an old school King Quartz from 1976 when they were still relatively thick with some very funky design. In 1978 thinner quartzes were released with different calibers - the 97, 99 etc. The calibers 0853, 0852, 4843, 4822 etc were then fased out.

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When quartz was well established, at the end of the Seventies, the Seiko 1978 JDM catalogue showed the twin quartz caliber for the first time, however there were (eventually) at least three different design technologies behind the Seiko twin quartz models.
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Hey guys, got another incoming - better pictures soon.

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Well, I came across this one...

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Well, here is my latest and greatest.

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This is photographed outside in the snow - very "cool" lighting conditions, which I rather liked.

Another great one, with the blackened tips of the hands - so legible. It really gives the watch some "punch"

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I used to wonder why even on high-end quartz watches many times the seconds hand did not stop precisely where it should on the markers. Well, a few years ago, I learned why. It has to do with how most quartz watches are assembled. When the minute hands are placed on the dial, it is often without being properly aligned to any specific "stop" in the movement. Meaning, there is often no relation to the alignment of the hand and the perfection position on the dial for it to line up properly with mar

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From 38 to 08
A serious collector will have dealings with the 08 caliber movement, descendants of the early 38QR quartz movements of the seventies. These movements were divided in the SQ, QT, QR and QZ quartzes. They were the JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) watches made around 1971-75, while the export models were mostly labelled SQ 2002, SQ 3003 and SQ 4004.
The highest quality and the most expensive of these 38's were the SQ & QT (with tighter specifications - 15s as compared to QR's 2