Sunday 19 May 2013

Pulsar Spoon Ingot W170

Another smart shiny watch again today, and from a brand of watches I've not featured so much.

This watch is made by one of the Seiko sub-brands, but not Alba (as with many in my collection), but by Pulsar (which was more the European brand).

The watch is one of the Spoon watches. This line came out in the mid 90s, and we're the first of the major lines of fashion watches (and a forerunner of the Seiko AKA and Citizen 1481010 lines).

This model is one of the more unusual Spoon watches with a vertically elongated design, and I think it was part of the Spoon Ingot line. The Ingot watches were all made I'm shiny metallic colours (and this makes it hard to get good photos of). It has a 2 line inverse LCD display with date and day in small digits along the top, and a 6 digit time display (with very large hours and minutes, and small seconds). The W170 module also has a chronograph, timer, alarm, and dual time. When switching between modes, the top line shows text as to which mode you are about to use.

The strap is a shiny dark blue colour, matched to the body, and has a part number of 71Q7-G-E.

The full model number is W170-4A20, and the instructions on the W170 can be found on the Pulsar Watches website. I think it came out in around 2000, but I haven't see it in any catalogues.

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