Sourcing replacement generic crystal gaskets for two 7s26 seikos.

[Birbdad]

9 hours ago, spectre6000 said:

Sorry I'm late to the party. I was able to order all of the specified gaskets (didn't mess with the stem gasket(s) though) for a 7S26 Seiko a while back. "Seiko modding" is a thing, so they're out there. I believe got a dial, crystal and gaskets from here when I put together my "shop watch"; a frankenstein watch made of various parts from a few Seikos I had lying around. Digging around though, I don't see them listed currently... Might be worth an email.

It was less an issue of not being able to find gaskets and more an issue of learning how to match and source generic gaskets to save money for the future. My original goal was to swap out the gaskets in 2 watches entirely with generic ones which would save me about 20 dollars. on each watch. The crystal gaskets just happened to be the one thing that it's apparently OEM or bust for on seikos as they're such weird sizes.

Edited October 6, 2022 by Birbdad

[Neverenoughwatches]

9 hours ago, Birbdad said:

it's apparently OEM or bust for on seikos as they're such weird sizes.

purposeful  of Seiko i wonder . Quite so. 

[Birbdad]

On 10/7/2022 at 3:14 AM, Neverenoughwatches said:

purposeful  of Seiko i wonder . Quite so. 

Well they're apparently one of the only companies that from what i've heard manufacture every single thing in house from gaskets to crystals to sapphire to jewels to hands to lume etc while most other companies source a lot of that stuff from other manufacturers. If they don't need to make watches around standard sizes i guess they can do anything they want.  

Seems like a great way to charge a lot of money for a gasket that cost them a 20th of a cent to produce 

Edited October 9, 2022 by Birbdad