Orient Tristar and a very early morning…

I woke up at 4am, after taking half a Rivotril last night. Must have slept 5-6 hours. Begins the day-long wait for the Orient Tristar I ordered Tuesday, 3 days ago. Can’t wait to hold it in person and make a new video for my channel. More later…

At the dot of 2 minutes past 6pm, in the wake of a rainstorm, the watch was finally delivered. I was not expecting such grail emotions to flow from this very budget purchase, $75, but I honestly believe I have found my one true ‘happy life-day’ watch. 360RM is very reasonable.

The watch case is 35mm wide at 9-3 / not including an unsigned domed crown. The lug width seems a half mm over 18mm and there is a day of week change button in the spot Seiko reserves for Kinetics. The case design is classic from every angle. No blocky sides or sharp bits. Markers are gold KitKat. Very little lume and an unspecified WR. The movement is a Seiko 7005 modded ebauche or the 469, IIRC Orient named it. Suspect this piece to be from 2006, by the printer’s date on its warranty manual. Here are some pics:

It is sometimes hard to read the time!

Classic casework.

All clean, if you thought blue goo was tough to get off.

As you can see it’s not a dial for everyone but I personally like it. Failed to get a good timegraph reading somehow, it hovered suspiciously around +30s per day. Can’t be true, can it? Maybe it was the magnet on my iPad where the mic is located. More investigating soon…

Bringing the Tristar into the bathroom where there is better light helped the legibility of the dial. Under my LED bulb it is also legible. It didn’t like the lighting transition we had, from 6-8pm somehow. The results of my timing over one hour are: approximately +0.5s / 1 hr. or +12s per day.