Thursday 23 February 2012

Seiko Airpro - Robo Air A861 talking watch

In their history, Seiko has made some strange watches, and today is one of those.

The Seiko Airpro is a watch from the late 90s, early 2000s (the trademark was registered in 1998 and cancelled in 2006), in the same vein as the Reebok Pump trainers, which has a pumping mechanism and inflatable bags behind the watch which can be set to give you a comfortable fit to your wrist. There were 3 different versions of the AirPro, and this is one of them, sometimes known as the Robo Air.

The large black button that can be seen at the bottom of the watch is the rubber pump button, and the small silver button at the top is the pressure release, and this mechanism takes up most of the volume of the watch.

The watch itself is a talking watch with an LCD display (using the module A861), and only tells the time in Japanese (activated by the small black button below the display). The module also has alarm and chronograph functions, and changing the mode is also accompanied by a japanese mans voice announcing the name of the mode.

The full model number (and other codes) is:
A861-4000  A0  T14
The catalogue number is SBZV007 and was originally sold for 21,000 yen (1999)


Robo air page from the Japanese Airpro catalogue


2 comments:

  1. mine 2 say a861-4000

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  2. I need some parts for one of these if anyone has any new old stock parts or a donor watch availabl...

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