C-segment Wrist Watches: Project Hommage : Save-The-Ocean 63MAS (Part 4)

Seated in front of my Mac as we inspected the finer details before the engineering team brought it to the next level, I was really thankful to be working with a dedicated team located at KL, JB, SG, and CH for bringing this to fruition. Along the way, there had been much learning curve as I found out that creating a dial was not as simple as I thought; and making minute improvements to a seemingly-similar case and parts, was not as easy a production task as I imagined.

I have been modding Seiko watches for years, and it seemed that it was easier to mod a single watch at any one point in time than to commission for the production of custom watches. And along the way, we also had to look for some ready-made parts.

For example, to design and produce a brand new caseback was rather costly, so looking at other micro brands' casebacks and just buying from them was the more cost efficient process; but the manufacturer had to then test on the improved case and see if it worked for the water resistance required.

For parts that could be seen from the naked eye while STO63MAS was worn on the wrist, I did not want to compromise on the look and feel. This included the dial, sapphire crystal (upgrading to domed, baby!), lumed ceramic bezel insert, and crown.

The ones underneath like the movement (leaving it stock- initially was thinking of a self-designed rotor) and caseback could be simpler as these were not immediately visible.

And because this was the first Andywristwatches' piece limited to a mere 30 pieces, I wanted it to be stylish yet affordable to my readers. Therefore, right from the start, the consensus was to set a USD300 benchmark for the price and then put in as much goodies as possible into the proposed case and design.

Some of the backers had started asking for a MM300-inspired piece in the next project, but let's not jump the gun. Let's see through the success of STO63MAS first.

It had been fun indeed, and there were lots of support from fellow readers and the Seikoholic community. These were some of the ones forwarded to me, and sorry if I did not pick yours to put on the blog. I have read 'em nonetheless and really appreciate the thoughts and kind words.

Of course there were brickbats too, and these were the only ones that were sent my way todate. Still, I appreciate you taking the time to comment although ain't too constructive for our production process at the interim period.

Still, it looked like almost everyone preferred the consensus design as discussed over our Andywristwatches' platform; so it's going in fast and it's going in hard. There're still a few empty slots so if you are keen, just send an e-mail to toyotaharrier240g@gmail.com to reserve your piece.