Question Black Dial

DakotaONeill said:

Hey there, I have been looking at the SNK793 and really like the face of it. However I would prefer a black dial as well as the crown at the 3 pm position. Are there any watches that meet my requirements? A larger diameter would be nice as well, *day/date is a must*, hacking/manual wind would be a bonus.

I have been trying to find something like this for a while now but there are just so many models of Seiko's I began to get lost. As well, sometimes the Amazon etc photos don't look as good as "real life" photos and I get turned away.

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Welp, the 795 is the black-dial version of that watch... but as for a 3 oclock crown, you'd probably have buy a second Seiko 5 with the crown position you want, and then have the stuff you want put into the case with the crown. If you get on Amazon and search all the similar Seikos (usually the 'other people bought these' spot), you will probably find a ton of 5's that have nice details, but one thing will be wrong with it... that's how I find most of those 5's =). So again, you either gotta settle on the 4 o'clock crown or mod.

Why do you not like the 4 o'clock crown?

DakotaONeill said:

I just prefer a watch with the guard around the 3 pm position. To me it is more eye catchy.

I just looked up the "SNKK93" It has everything I like so far, thoughts on that one? Thanks for the help by the way! Modding is probably the only way I will be truly happy but I am too chicken to do that right now!

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That's a nice one. Love that case. Don't have one, but it's the case I'd probably use if I were going to be doing a mod thing. I believe it has the very versatile and elusive 20mm lugs, where the dressy 5's usually have 18mm lugs (or 19mm).

I don't mod myself, but I'd like to learn someday. I'm sure I could handle it after some practice, I'm really just afraid of leaving dust inside and breaking second hands... but any competent local watchmaker that's familiar with Seikos (that's an important part) should be able to do the simplest of mods -- hand/dial/movement swaps. There are some guys out there who call themselves watchmakers that will insist your auto needs a new battery, these are the kinds you don't want to visit lol.

The only things I could suggest are the two that I have, SNKL45 (just got it Saturday) and the SNXS79, but those are both 4 o'clock models. Short of running up and down Amazon pages I'm not too aware of many 3 o clock crowns in this kind of Seiko 5. There's a watch that's very close looking to the SNXS79 with a 3 o'clock crown, but I didn't like the dial and hands. You might, haha. I don't recall the model number offhand though. But it's probably on Amazon. =) Haha I can look it up a little later....

I swear I don't work for Amazon lol