u/Inevitable_Lemon_592

Something about having something that looks so nice and flashy, that you can just throw into a gym bag carelessly and is tough as nails

This one is spotless because I wrecked my old one modding it so I got a new stock one.

Hello all, I love my Arabic Seiko but 42mm is too large. I had the idea to mod it to a Flieger Type A/IWC Big Pilot inspired watch, which makes its size appropriate as my pilot watch

This is my first time modifying a Seiko, and I think I have a good idea of interchangeability of parts, but I’d like your help. So far the mods I will do is:

-Sword hands from SNZH53

-CT078 sapphire crystal for SNZG (known to fit the Arabic)

-Pilot-style riveted leather strap

-NH36 movement with black day wheel (planning to leave the date white)

Now heres the uncharted territory. Since I saw the crystal was interchangeable between SNKP21J1 and SNGZ15, i also noticed the chapter ring appears to be the same size.

SNKP caseback code: 7S26-04R0 SNZG: 7S36-03J0

Thanks and I’ll share my watch here when it’s done/if the chapter ring is interchangeable.

At some point in middle school, all the (upper middle class) guys were rocking flashy oversized gshock watches and I knew I had to have one.

Unfortunately the big colorful $100+ ones were way out of my budget. My mom got me a G100, which is a much smaller anadigital model, for $45-$55 at the time at Walmart.

I was upset it wasn’t oversized, as my main reference of watches at the time was Ben 10’s. I wished it was a flashier color too. But I was still happy to have a Gshock.

I wore that watch from like age 12-21. Never gave it a second thought, it was just my timetelling tool with me 24/7 that also looked cool. My brain back then, not yet fried by endless dopamine, liked to tinker with the settings late at night when bored. The features are basic, but with a childlike mind, it felt like there was a reservoir of cool gadget-like features packed inside that thing.

Well I’m much older than 12 now but still love Gshock. Funny enough, now I think the g100 was a perfectly sized Gshock, and would rather grab a resin square over the oversized models. I like the metal gshocks these days

With that story said, DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW FUCKIN’ COOL THIS THING IS? MOTHAFUCKIN FULL METAL GSHOCK MAN. LOOKS LIKE IT CAME FROM THE FUTURE. ATOMIC CLOCK. SOLAR. BLUETOOTH. WORLD TIME.

This purchase was for my inner kid!

Without going too deep into the retaining sciences, the fundamental law I see at play is:

“Willful struggle is always rewarded.”

Call it karma or God’s blessing, but the universe rewards your efforts.

Imagine the average society. Most people go to work, go home. They eat some junk food, goon, and go to bed.

They are blessed but Mt Olympus looks down to see where to distribute the true fruits.

Theres a couple kids sparring in the boxing gym. Willful struggle. Fruits to you.

A guy on a run while everyone’s watching tv? Fruits for you.

A guy retaining for weeks or months? Fruits for you.

Not going to lie, even when I wasn’t retaining but was extremely focused on kickboxing training, I got many fruits. I had an excess of chi, my desires (rewarded with dozens of beautiful women), a vibrant life.

Because I was willfully struggling, taking punches to the noggin and being constantly bruised, pushups runs jump roping, willful struggle the average man wasn’t putting themselves through, the universe was happy one of its creations sought to glorify the Creator by becoming a better creation and bestowed fruits.

Think of Zyzz. We call him “Son of Zeus, brother of Hercules”. Our innate consciousness respects the full fledged creation this guy became, his willful struggle that surpassed the average man’s into legend territory.

I’m going off on a tangent, but the main point I’m making is, YOUR WILLFUL STRUGGLE IS ALWAYS REWARDED. But the opposite holds true, all your willful hedonism came at a cost.

Everything is a sacrifice. With gooning, it’s much more subtle. You may not notice it at the first goon, or the second goon, or the third goon. But weeks and months later of gooning, you’re a shell of your former self. You may not have been hanging out as much with friends creating awesome memories, your number of romancing beautiful women may have dwindled without realizing, your athleticism slowly fading.

All those incredibly intense bursts of pleasure were NOT without sacrifice. Everything has a price and gooning is no different. Every time you GOON, you exchanged something equal to the intensity of the pleasure you received.

Every time you engaged in willful hedonism, you paid a price, it may be too subtle to perceive, but you paid a price.

Now knowing this, take on the willful struggle. The Christ said “any man who wishes to follow me, let them take up their cross and follow me”. Taking up your cross means bearing willful struggle. For the sake of the soul’s desires (the kingdom of heaven) over the body’s desires (Satan)

Every goon session resisted, every sparring session you willfully go through, every workout, every healthy meal eaten. You will receive fruits, according to your intensity to the point of becoming a Legend.

Next time you have strong urges, remember; the intensity of your struggle is being calculated as the weight of your good fruits to receive in resisting it. It may be subtle, but I assure you, over a lifetime these decisions compound.

(Disclaimer: Sub and Cartier are reps. Sub Date is gen).

The Rolex Sub was my only grail for as long as I can remember.

However it was out of my price range at the time I got into the watch hobby so I got the Tissot Gentleman as my first “real watch”, I saw it as THE highest value for money watch in the market, my favorite color as a kid was green, and it was my birth emerald. Good story, and the sunburst “British racing green” dial is VERY unique in the market

As a teen I rocked plastic gshocks 24/7, so I got the GM2100 to honor a place in my collection for my childhood love brand.

I did a naughty, taking a shortcut, and got the Rolex Sub rep and fake Cartier Santos back to back while traveling in the Asian underworld. These things have a lot of sentimental value, they were with me for lots of adventures. I don’t wear em in public much anymore, but they take up a museum display, artifact of a great era kind of space in my watch box.

I felt bad about the reps enough that I coughed it up for the genuine Sub. This 16610 is my “The Watch”, it fits on my wrist perfectly, I like the image it projects on me, and it’s so comfortable that I feel uncomfortable sleeping WITHOUT it on. It gets 90-95% of wrist time.

The ae-1200 is such a great watch for the price of a Taco Bell meal and the most utilitarian one I own. The Seiko Arabic is my field watch, as a token Seiko 5 and unique design I love. At some point I modded the two Casio models I had and missed the OG look, so I rebought it stock. And I got a full metal gshock square recently.

Where will I go from here?

I want to add a 5610u, the Longines Heritage Flagship, Tudor GMT Pepsi, Tag Heuer S/EL, and I’m eyeballing replacing the Seiko 5 with a Hamilton Murph or Sinn 556i.

I’d love to get a genuine Cartier dress watch eventually.

Glancing at:

Kurono watches (chronograph)

Omega watches (2254.50)

I want to be disciplined in my purchases and take my time.

Well that’s where I am now, I thought the genuine Sub would turn me into a one watch guy, but I still miss the fun of collecting. I’m not really into many other expensive watches, they’re nice but I can’t imagine exchanging the money for them. Other than getting one gen Cartier, I can only see myself paying more than $1k for a Sinn 556i. Maybe a Kurono and Omega wayyy down the line.