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There are many vintage Seiko dive watches popular with collectors, and the watch here – a 1996 Seiko SUS 7N35-6150 dive watch here, with its vibrant red dial, original Seiko 7N35 instructions manual, and on a vintage Japanese Bambi stainless-steel bracelet – continues Seiko's well-earned reputation for building robust, stylish, and purpose-built divers for a wide-range of professional adventurers.

Seiko introduced its 7N35 line in 1991, and it came in a range of dial colors, to include the red one here, as well as black, white, grey, and others.  

The dial is stark and utilitarian, with military-esque hour indices on a vibrant glossy red dial, and features a short arrow-pointed hour hand contrasted with a longer thinner minute hand, aiding in wearer ability to distinguish the two immediately. 

It also benefits from the discrete placement of a date window along the minutes track just below 4 o’clock, with negative impact upon the symmetry of its beautiful design.

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1964 marked the resurgence of a post-war Japan onto the world stage as a first-rate economic power, most readily apparent in Tokyo hosting the Summer Olympics that same year. 

Seiko – despite having no prior experience in sports timing (much to Heuer’s chagrin, we're sure) – was named the official timekeeper, and began research and development in preparation for the games in 1961.

As part of Seiko’s R&D, and to commemorate its upcoming role in the summer games, it developed several advanced wristwatches for the Olympics, and Seiko would develop the large crown 6217 GMT   for the Games, like the 1964 Seiko 6217-7000 World Time GMT automatic here, with its strikingly colorful dial 1964 Olympic torch case back inscription.

The Olympic Technical Committee head noted, "We are not assigning official timekeeping to a Japanese manufacturer because the Olympics will be held in Tokyo, but because these are actual functional [timepieces], backed up by solid theory."

The 6217 GMT was released for a short period of time during and after the 1964 Olympics, and then discontinued. Never one to pass up on an advertising opportunity, Seiko naturally advertised and associated these GMTs with the games.

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Seiko’s first range of truly submersible sports watches came in the form of the Seikomatic 50m SilverWave in 1961, which marked a number of firsts for Seiko.  

The evolutionary watch represented the Japanese company’s first dive watch; their first watch with an inner rotating countdown bezel; their first use of the tsunami wave symbol; and their first automatic watch with a screw-down case back.

Fast forward to the ever more refined, full-serviced 1977 Seiko 6306-807A SilverWave automatic diver here, which has lost some of the early diver’s rough edges, yet retained all - and then some - of the charm.  

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Between 1965 and 1975, Seiko brilliantly conceived, designed, and produced three generations of classic ISO-certified 150 m divers’ watches, in chronological order - the 62MAS, 6105-8000/9, and the 6105-8010/9. 

Then 1976 arrived...and with it, Seiko's 6306 diver.

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Ive followed reporter Jeremy Bowen's conflict reporting since the late 1990s - at which point he had been in the game for at least 15 years (!) - and its safe to say few are as good as he.

After the mid-point graphic is his career highlights, courtesy of Wikipedia. Just...wow

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