Vintage Digital / LCD - Seiko World Times - Collectors & Owners thread

Here are the M158's:


And the follow-up A358's:


And the completely different A239's:


And perhaps the final edition A7X8's:

For the A239 series, I think this series started a bit earlier then December 1979.

I have Golfer Lanny Wadkins A239 that he was given for being in the Japanese Goldwin Cup in ether 1982 or 1983 (It was a different name from 1971 to 1981 and a different name in 1984)

It has Goldwin Cup engraved at the top and his name on the bottom

This watch is dated November 1979 so for some reason there Seiko seemed to have at least one 1979 model hanging around to be used for this.

Here is a post about it


The pics were from the original seller, once I replaced the battery the display went back to normal (with a darker display). There are a lot of Timex, Casio, Citizen and Seiko digital watches that have good displays. Most of the time, the thing that kills them is a leaking battery.

I've started (very early days) indexing sales images with case back info for these digital watches. With only 65 total digital world times indexed so far, it looks like this:

• M158: April 1977 - January 1979
• A358: April 1979 - February 1980
• A239: July 1979 - April 1980
• A708: May 1984 - May 1988
• A718: February 1984 - June 1984

You can browse the data here:


This will get built out like the mechanical watches eventually.

I have an A239-502A in the mail, and recently added the this one to my collection (the A718 at right):



I've also finally put up a first revision/post on the M158-500X:


I've also put up the ad/catalog scans that I could find:


Those are my first write-ups on these digital world times... If you spot anything incorrect, please let me know. More soon...