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My Purchase for March 2009
For March I chose the Alba AAAA101, designed by Mr Riki Watanabe, a famous designer from Japan.
In March the notion of owing a Nomos Tangante was merely a pipe dream and when I saw this watch, I thought it would be a good substitute for the Nomos. I would go on to buy the Nomos Club but am still dreaming of getting the Tangante.
This watch is 38mm wide and houses a Seiko movement. From what I've read it houses a Seiko mechanical 7S-based movement. At 38mm it's a fairly small watch (by today's standards) but since the bezel is thin, it looks larger than its size.
Despite its size, it's not a slim watch.
I really like it's clean dial and simple indexes. It's really legible (a plus for my failing eyesight).To me the hands are cool. I believe that the minute hand is exactly the size of the cut out in the hour hand, at least to my naked eye it looks that way. I also liked that the hands are designed to circle the different leveled concentric circles on the dial.
The dial do come in black and brown and I believe there was at one time a limited edition but I cannot recall the dial colour for that.
My Purchase for March 2009
Thanks for sharing!
Congrats!
