Thursday 3 April 2014

Disney Limited Collection - Mickey Mouse Chronograph V655

I'm wearing another chronograph today, but this one is a little different.

Today's watch is a Disney Mickey Mouse Chronograph, which is a very child friendly design, but with a more adult watch feature. The design charts the progression of the Mickey design from Steamboat Willy in 1928 through the early colour design (1931), and on to what I presume was the present when the watch was released (1994). The strap also features this motif with the 3 Mickey designs running after each other. The Mickey Mouse theme also continues with the rotating bezel which has Mickey's name and a little Mickey Mouse head shape at the top.

The watch is made by the Seiko brand Alba and uses a V655 module. It is a 3 hand dial design with 3 chronograph hands on the dial. The chronograph style is similar to quite a few other watches (such as the GSX Smart Style) with a top dial covering 1/10 sec (2 sec per rotation), bottom dial for seconds, and left dial for minutes. If the chronograph dials become misaligned, they can also be adjusted by using the chronograph buttons while the crown is pulled out.

The chronograph dials also are designed to fit in with the Mickey over the ages theme. The seconds dial is designed like the old Mickey Mouse watch design with Mickey's hands acting as the watch hand, and the minutes dial has a picture of Mickey as Steamboat Willy on his boat.

It seems to be part of a range called Disney Limited Collection, and only has a 4 digit serial number, which implies there are 9999 or fewer watches (mine has a number less than 1000 though). It has a full model number of V655-605A.

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