Seiko

I'm wearing my Seiko Sportura Perpetual Calendar GMT 100M watch today. As I said in the title to this post, it's not the most fashionable watch having aged a bit since Y2K, but it's a darn nice object to find in the watch cabinet. Legible dial Bright lume...  

And I appreciate the case to face ratio. That said they could have done without the screws? On the bezel.

They are part of the design theme which includes this blackish area of the bezel which is achieved by some sort of different polishing of the material The back has similar styling touches which are far more than "needed" for opening the watch. Inside (yes...  

I remember lurking at this one for quite a long time in the early 2000's. It was a period (from +/- 1995 till 2005) I never wore a watch and for that reason i didn't want to buy it. My life could have been so different if had Timebomb Bim

thank you for sharing. Do you change the lithium battery or is it chargeable with a rotor inside the watch?

It's a bit of a pain in the neck, actually. Involving tweezers and tapping on the battery and several sensor points around it to tell it the current year and month and day. Then the watch movement goes to work and rotates the calendar to the proper date. ... 

as I haven’t seen a month or a year indicator neither on the dial nor on the back of the watch. Thank you for clarifying it is indeed an interesting watch.