Lee's Watch Thread for MM'ers of Impeccable Taste

[SlimKlim]

  Just the motivation I needed to make another watch purchase. That isn’t the prettiest watch I’ve ever seen, but I’ve been looking for a black leather band dress watch. Very few occasions that I would wear a black leather band watch, but for free, I’ll buy something else I like and add this one!

Joey just got his in the mail, I saw a pic and it looks cool!  Very clean

Yerp, order showed up faster than I expected. 

Packaging was about as minimal as it could be, which isn't really surprising for a watch with a retail price of <$100. 



Unboxing the Sea Urchin (starting to feel like Lee)



New shinythings



The movement in the freebie watch is one of the loudest quartz movements I've ever heard, it rivals the wall clock in my living room. That said it's a pretty nice case design with a super thin profile. Zero complaints given it was free.

The stock band is complete garbage, but it's a standard 18mm size so I popped it onto a spare $10 amazon strap I already had and made a MASSIVE improvement.



The Sea Urchin won't stay stock for long, I have a leather band and a handful of aftermarket parts on the way that will pretty much completely overhaul the look of it. 

I'm also researching how to go about upgrading to the higher quality hacking/hand-winding seiko 4r36 movement, I know for a fact it can be done, but I'm still digging up info on which crown stem and crown I need to fit it with this case, and I want to source a rotor from a higher quality movement like the 6r20 to take advantage of the pimpy display caseback on this thing.