Seiko Sportura World Timer Chrono Review

A review of the Seiko Sportura World Timer Chrono, a very nice, easy to use, sports car-inspired watch.

The stopwatch can record a 100-hour event with 1/1000th of a second accuracy, so you can time an event that's over 4 days long. It also has a lap time function though the lap times are not stored as data.

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[deescuba]

Re: Seiko Sportura World Timer Chrono Review

This is a great watch. I actually have it with the chrome band. I would love to have another one with the leather band, but understand they are no longer being made. Do you know if one can still get them and, if so, where?

Many thanks

[nikudes]

@deescuba If you do a Google Shopping search on the name of the watch you can find a couple of places that sell them, although they're no sites I've ever heard of. Alternatively, there's one with a metal band on ebay right now for less than $150. You could buy that and then get a replacement leather band from watchbandsonline. Scroll down until you see SEIKO DIVER BANDS. There's a leather strap on that page.

[deescuba]

@nikudes Many thanks for your kind follow-up, including the watch band. I am trying to contact some of these websites and see if they are real.

Have you ever seen other worldwatches with the same concept, where the lcd is in the background with world times.  I think it is great as it does not clutter the watch.

[nikudes]

@deescuba No worries. The only other watch I know of that has an analog face with digital world time in the background is the Citizen Skyhawk / Navihawk line. It's a pilot's watch with a complex (but satisfying) face and slide rule bezel. Mine has the additional feature that you can program which timezones you'd like to have appear in the set that you scroll through on the face of the watch. If you look through my videos, you'll see a review. It's the Citizen Navihawk 2000GT.

[aviomaster]

This watch is HEAVY , and rubber bands in 400 $ Seiko watches break easy ,

Does anyone know where to get Seiko rubber bands.

[nikudes]

@aviomaster This particular watch only weights 3oz. (85g) and the strap is leather. For watch bands try searching for "replacement watch bands." A number of options come up.

[dziurskou9]

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[dpa78eda]

@nikudes Citizen Promaster Navitach World Time. Good luck finding one. Discontinued for quite a while now. I've had mine for about 12 years and still think it's one of the more useful and attractive watches without all the clutter of the Skyhawk series. No offense intended to those who like/have one, just to much for me. The new Citizen Eco-Drive Promaster SST looks like it might be a worthy addition to my collection.

[Beowulfsonur]

Brilliant design...

[nikudes]

@qa1001xz If you look for the Citizen Navihawk 2000GT in my videos you'll see a review of a watch that's similar the Promaster Carbon Chronograph.