Seiko

SSB479

Name: Seiko SSB479
Brand: Seiko
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The Seiko SSB479 puts a quartz chronograph into proportions that should please anyone tired of oversized sports watches. Its 38.7mm case and box-shaped Hardlex give it a compact, slightly old-fashioned presence, without asking you to live with a vintage movement.

The interesting part is the 8T63: quartz-regulated timekeeping paired with a chronograph mechanism that snaps its counting hands back to zero. That reset is worth trying when handling one—start, stop, then reset, and watch for a clean return. There is also a distinction easily missed among the subdials: the 24-hour indicator follows the main hands rather than counting elapsed hours. This is a stopwatch for timing up to an hour, not a long-duration chronograph or a second-time-zone watch.

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