Many Seiko watches from the 1960’s through the mid-1980’s have rightly gone down as design classics, building a considerable following amongst watch collectors.
Many of these vintage Seiko watches are popular with Seiko enthusiasts - but many are relatively unknown, like the svelte 1985 Seiko 7321-0320 womens dress watch here, with an original Seiko 7321 instructions manual (but, alas, no Labubu)– representing "diamonds in the rough" for its ability to stand out among routine and boring fashion watches.
Some truly gorgeous watches from the same era produced by the same company have quietly slipped under the radar for the simple reason they were designed for the typically slighter wrist, ie: women. The design of the Seiko 7321 here - classic and simple - is one of these, and it borrows heavily from the instantly recognizable earlier Seiko automatic and quartz divers.
And it’s a shame, because many of these smaller watches feature exquisite details – Seiko found an original, great looking formula for its watches, and stuck with it. The quartz movements Seiko designed for watches like these are tough and reliable – and stylish!
This vintage Seiko comes with two nylon straps, rugged travel case, Seiko 7321 instructions manual, and springbar tool.
Matte-Red 1984 Seiko 7321-0320 Womens Dress Watch
DIAL: Crisp dark black Seiko-signed dial, which has a unique leather-like texture to it, with applied hour indices every two hours, rendering a quite sparse dial with no day and date function.
CASE: Matte-black stainless-steel case measures 25.5mm x 30.5mm, with matching caseback; light wear on case.
CRYSTAL: Hardlex crystal, no scratches or cracks.
BAND: This Seiko 7321 comes with two separate nylon straps, each with gold hardware - one is black, the other red, white, and blue.
MOVEMENT: Seiko 7321 calibre quartz movement, manufactured in July 1985; hacks as designed.
CROWN: Unsigned gold crown.
Of note, this Seiko dress watch comes with an original Seiko 7321 instructions manual, in both English and Kanji Japanese languages.
