Pulsar Y960- 601Z Birth Year Watch May 1987 Boxed Rare Find In This Conation The Case & Bracelet Are In Fabulous Condition for One of These As They Do Wear Very Well if Not Looked After Even The Glass is mint and the bezel Very Good Near Mint if not may have Small Markson the bezel
A time warp find i think it will be very hard to find a better one i never seen better with box as well recent battery not far off new old stock there is a model very much like with ref Y960-6O1H also in black from the uk price point is £202.00 with offers .
Now incredibly rare in working condition like this . I would describe it as in very good condition with some wear due to normal use. Due to their age I can’t vouch for the water resistance, however I have worn without issue in normal daily use.
This a lovey y960 series watches with time, alarm,day and date indicator in lcd /digital panel with functions bezel that moves .
The Black Bracelet is the original Pulsar ‘P’ bracelet in great condition for may 1987 watch , the gold on bezel really goes with it and ties in with hands and dial. The bracelet integrates with the case so well . when you move bezel the gold line moves as its part of the glass very good marker
The bracelet easily fit my 7.6 wrist.
The instruction manual is a little tired but very necessary when dealing with the setting etc of these watches, they are quite complex for approx. 40 years old !
As you may know pulsar are part of the Seiko group this watch is very similar to cal 8v20 lots of good info on line about these if you look you can see the magazine ad i took 2 photos of for them for listing i found some more info below about these models that Seiko Pulsar and even Alba made back in the day i am sure there is much more about this cool 1980s watches out there time warp find i think it will be very hard to find a better one.
I wanted to find out more about the Seiko A82* modules. They are reasonably well known in WIS circles as some of them have been up in to space and one was on Doc Brown's wrist in Back to the Future. It is an elegant solution to the need to change function (less painful than repeatedly pressing a stiff pusher with the soft part of the thumb or getting a pusher stuck under a fingernail) and I was surprised that there weren't many more watches with similar abilities. So I decided to find out if Seiko was the only company to make watches which used the bezel to change the function and perhaps a clue as to why they didn't become more commonplace. And so began an interesting voyage through the internet which, inevitably, ended in depletion of the watch fund.
As with any internet voyage I had a destination in mind and ended up somewhere slightly different. I quickly found out a little more about the A82* (there seem to be five variants) but nothing much on their history or their demise. I can only guess that Seiko had the idea pretty tied up with patents and when they decided not to continue with it nobody else was able to take it up. Anyway that journey ended up with me purchasing a few .
It is an Alba V600- 9000 and it is the V600 movement that piqued my interest because it is another movement which uses the bezel to change function, this time analogue instead of digital. I have been unable to find out much about it so what is written below is based on the scant information available. It appeared in many Alba and Pulsar watches around the mid eighties (which is contemporaneous with the A82* watches). It also appears in Seiko watches under the 8V20 (with similar functions to this watch) and the 8V22 which was a world timer.
Looking at pictures of the Pulsars and Albas on the internet it seems you had the choice of either something that looked a bit sporty or something which looked a bit dressy (albeit in a style that could only have appeared in the eighties).
As well as the ability to change functions via the bezel the movement has a couple of quirks. The minute hand ticks, once every half a minute and the seconds hand moves backwards when in Timer mode (or at least it should, this one is a little temperamental). The sub dial indicates AM/PM which is particularly useful for when setting the alarm. Perhaps the most interesting thing is that, when changing the functions, the hands do this:
The functions are fairly standard and are as described on the bezel. The setting shown at 6 o'clock co-ordinates the hands after the gymnastics of changing function as they can come out of synch while using one of the other functions.