Dear Seiko,
Please don’t get any wrong ideas about my letter. We have not met (yet), and we have not eaten or drunk together; therefore there can’t be any declarations of love at this moment. Also, I have just one watch from you, which means I don’t have that much experience to discuss in detail all things Seiko. So why did I call this letter a love letter?
Well, the answer is quite simple. Because my beautiful woman has a Seiko watch. And if I write an article about a watch that she owns and wears every day then you can’t call this peace of writing any other way than a love letter.
Did I influence her to buy a watch? I think so. Did she ask for my opinion on what watch to buy? I believe so. Did she ask me whether she should buy this particular Seiko? I remember so.
It is a beautiful watch. A Seiko, of course. A solar quartz watch, a white dial, leather strap, elegant numerals, and minute/hour hands, no seconds hand. Small in size but sits very nicely on a gentle woman’s wrist. It is beautiful, right? Elegant in its simplicity, catches your eye if you tend to spot watches in public. People who understand the value of a timepiece will nod in appreciation but the rest will just see and forget.
The only drawback of this watch. She bought it herself. I would have wanted to buy it for her. Watches are personal. If you like the timepiece then you will wear it every day, you will look at it almost a hundred times a day, and would not it be nice to have the feeling that she thinks of you every time her eyes glance over the dial? It would. I know it because I have a watch gifted by her. And when I look at my beautiful watch, when I see the skeletonized dial – I remember that it was a gift by her to me. I love it, and I love her. And I love her watch. And I love that she has a watch that is not a smartwatch. She had one but the battery broke (as it tends to with smartwatches) and now she wears only this elegant white dial Seiko.
So thank you Seiko for putting together this lovely watch. Thank you for shipping it to a distributor in Latvia and allowing it to be sold there. Thank you to all the 3000+ gods who aligned the stars together and made this watch available at the time when my woman went into a watch store, looked around, and saw this timepiece.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Olaaf
