Alba AKA Square V733 - Gold and Red

Another shiny gold watch again today, and more festival later.

The watch is a variant on new that be posted before from the Seiko Alba AKA range. The AKA watches were originally released in the mid 90s for the young and fashionable, and may have spawned competitors such as the 1481010s that came soon afterwards.

It is a 3 hand dial model using a V733 quartz module. There is a day and date marker at the 6 o'clock position, with a dual language day option. The design is very shiny in reds and golds, and it has a cut glass face (with the central part raised and tapering down towards the top and bottom) making it catch the light well. The case is square on this model, and has the same tapering outwards on the top and bottom to where it meets the matching gold strap.

This gold version was part of a sub range called black and gold which came into the shops in Japan at the start of 1997. The catalogue number was AMBX006, and the original sale price was 15,000 yen. The full model number is V733-5A4O.