Seiko Ladies' Pogue

Overall Condition: Good condition overall. Case and bracelet show light wear consistent with age and use. Dial and handset are in good condition.

Women’s mechanical watches can often be something of an afterthought. Either they’re bejeweled variants of men’s styles, oftentimes with quartz movements, or they’re boring and safe approaches to watchmaking meant to appeal to the masses. True, though in recent years some manufactures have put out thoughtfully-executed watches for their female clientele, those are few and far between.

But there are pieces like this one from Seiko that fill that niche.

Seiko has long been making women’s watches. Though their earliest examples were of the dainty sort that the Swiss were making in the first half of the 20^th century, this soon changed in the 1960s and 1970s with the advent of dive watches. When Seiko began to release purpose-driven dive watches for men in the 1960s, women’s watches soon followed.

These watches were anything but afterthoughts. Crafted with the same care and attention that Seiko imbued all their watches with, these beautiful little dive watches are replete with tiny details that (we’re sure) would make any man jealous. We’re talking embossed hour markers and beautiful hands.

Internally, these watches were no slouches either, with scaled-down versions of the movements used in men’s watches—in fact, sometimes these movements were nicer than the male equivalents!

Take for example this watch, a Reference 2118-0390 diver, referred to as the 'Ladies' Pogue' a callback to the 6139 era chronographs the brand produced in the 70s. This piece preserves that same classic 70s cushion case, a date mechanism, and a manual 17 jewel movement within.

If you love the look of purpose-built watches, this piece is an incredible ladies, or simply more compact variant.