Thumbnail [WTS] [Reduced] Seiko "Black Alpinist" Hi-Beat from 1995 (4S15-6000 / SCVF005) 1

Model:	Seiko Alpinist	Last Scraped:	June 2, 2023, 5:47 p.m.
Username:	r3born	Location:	Unknown
Email:	Unknown	Feedback:	No Reviews Found

Up for sale is a Seiko 4S15-6000 / SCVF005 “Black Alpinist”, made in 1995. It’s a watch from my personal collection, I recently got another one in a trade so this one has to go. I purchased it in January 2019 from Yahoo! Auctions when I was on a trip in Tokyo. Powered by a 28,800 bph “hi-beat” movement, this is a joy to wear. The case is around 37mm wide and the original Seiko bracelet comfortably fits my 17cm wrist with one adjustment hole left. The case shows some wear but overall in good condition for its age (see closeups). The crystal has a few scratches on its surface (barely visible on the photos) and on the cyclope (really amplified on the photos). Dial is clean. All functions work as expected. Service history is unknown (I didn’t have it serviced) but the watch keeps good time (the timegrapher stats are in the album). Album: [https://imgur.com/a/NsVMKOe](https://imgur.com/a/NsVMKOe) Timestamp: [https://imgur.com/avvFgpx](https://imgur.com/avvFgpx) Price is **925 USD / 860 EUR** ~~975 USD~~ via PayPal F&F or crypto. Watch located in the EU but can be shipped worldwide. Shipping via regular post with tracking is on me. Plenty of feedback here.

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Highest:	$1,250	Lowest:	$65
Median:	$600.00	Std. Dev:	±$233.84

Estimated Private Party Value $490 — $750


	Established:	1881
	Website:	http://seikousa.com/index.php
	Country of Origin:	Japan

The company was founded in 1881, when Kintarō Hattori opened a watch and jewelry shop called "K. Hattori" (服部時計店 Hattori Tokeiten?) in the Ginza area of Tokyo, Japan. Eleven years later, in 1892, he began to produce clocks under the name Seikosha (精工舎 Seikōsha?), meaning roughly "House of Exquisite Workmanship". According to Seiko's official company history, titled "A Journey In Time: The Remarkable Story of Seiko" (2003), Seiko is a Japanese word meaning "exquisite" or "success" ("exquisite" is usually written 精巧 from Chinese jīngqiǎo, while the meaning "success" is usually written 成功 from Chinese chénggōng).

Seiko is perhaps best known for its wristwatches, all of which were at one time produced entirely in-house. This includes not only major items such as microgears, motors, hands, crystal oscillators, batteries, sensors, LCDs but also minor items such as the oils used in lubricating the watches and the luminous compounds used on the hands and the dials.

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