Seiko AKA Chronograph V657 Black and Green

As well as collecting the Citizen Independent 1481010 watches, I also have quite a lot of their rivals (or forerunners).

Today's watch is from the Seiko (Alba) AKA watches. These models came out in the mid 90s and were targeted at the young and fashionable, and there were many different styles and colour variations.

This model is another of the Chronograph models with a V657 module (-I've blogged one of these in a different colour before). The module was used for watches in a few different ranges, including the Seiko Wired watches (which I've also blogged before). The dial layout and function is also very similar to the GSX Smart Style watches. There is also a date marker at the 3 o'clock position.

The watch has one main 3 hand dial for time, and three smaller dials for the chronograph. The smaller dials are placed at the 6, 9, and 12 o'clock positions, and cover minutes (left), seconds (bottom), and 1/10 sec (top, with 2 seconds per rotation). The main hand is operated with the crown, but the chronograph ones are electronic dials.

Many of the AKA watches have a metal strap with cutout sections, and this one has a part number of F0M0AZ-E.

This particular watch was made in 1996, and has a full model number of V657-6030. The chronograph was one of the most expensive AKA models out at that time with a cost of 15,000 yen. The catalogue number for this variation was AMAS001.

If you need to reset the smaller dials (if they have not returned to zero), you can do this by pulling out the crown to get not setting mode, and then pressing the top or bottom button. I don't know how to reset the minutes dial though.