Pulsar V600-6010 Birth Year Watch July1985 Boxed Rare Find In This Conation The Case & Bracelet Are In Fabulous Condition for One of These As They Do Ware if Not Looked After Even The Bezel is Good Just Has a Few Small Marks.
The Domed Glass Has Marks In the centre i not had new glass as i like to keep as they are if you have no issue reading dial
A time warp find i think it will be very hard to find a better one just them marks on the glass the case has that dull matt finish so has the bracelet still looks good which in many of these now that do not and all working as well .
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 v600 series watches with time, alarm, stop watch ,timer and AM/PM/24hr indicator with all functions selected by turning the bezel.
The Silver matt Bracelet is the original Pulsar ‘P’ bracelet in great condition for may 1985 watch , the matt bezel really goes with it and ties in with hands and dial. The bracelet integrates with the case so well .
The bracelet easily fit my 7.6 wrist.
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.