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Only have a closeup of mine.

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The watch sits upright. You can use foam to wedge it so it stays put smack in the centre of each ring.

Took 4 days to fully charge mine.

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Its the base from this set.

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Thank you ro63rto! I'll check those out on ebay, I believe it is what I was looking for!

Cheers,

Bob

One thing to point out though.

I have not opened it up to bypass the timer feature so every few hours i have to press the reset (red led) to resume charging. One day I'll get round to it.

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I've only had one kinetic watch (a Seiko Arctura chrono), and had no trouble in keeping it running when it was off the wrist. When it did run down, it took a few hours to get it back to an even tick - rather than the 2-second jump that the second hand makes when it's underpowered - but apart from that it ran more or less continuously on a day's worth of normal wrist time..

 

It always seemed odd to me to save battery costs by buying a kinetic - and then use an electrically powered winder to keep it going! In the end I sold it as the chrono function was faulty, and got a solar powered Seiko instead. I much prefer solar power.

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Are those obsolete now, or do they still make them?

I got mine from A.G.Thomas some time ago, but their website is such a mish mash, it would probably pay to phone them.

 

I don't think Seiko have ever officially sold them, I just think that occasionally the suppliers acquired them.

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I have seen them in esslinger and ofrei, maybe even in borel but the price....the quote in my first post is from esslinger! Too rich for me and I don't even have one kinetic yet....although some will be refurbished soon. :)

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