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Originally Posted by rockfan4

This thread reminded me to advance the date on my Seiko.

I was going to post up a photo of my first Seiko 5, but it is missing. My brother found it when riding his bike, put a "found" ad in the paper, nobody claimed it. I don't remember how, but I talked him out of it. Maybe traded him something for it. It was on the ground because the pin broke that mounted the band. This would plague me for years. Eventually, when I got a job at a camera / computer store, I was able to order a box of 100. The pins would keep breaking and the watch would keep hitting the ground, and one day in the late 90's / early 2000's, the hit was hard enough and the watch quit working. At the time it wasn't worth getting fixed, and I bought a similar one. That one didn't last as long. The band didn't break on it, but it just quit.

Now I have a battery powered Seiko titanium. Much lighter, and if I don't wear it for a week, it's still running. I've probably had this one at least 15 years.

Spring bar failure is why the Brits came up with the NATO band. Break a bar, the watch stays on the wrist. Good military design, but I don't like how they look.