Bell matic forum3/11/2024 Clearly it didn’t work well.But the Bell-Matic range ran from 1966 until 1978, and there were all kinds of case styles and dial colours.Here is one that bought – a November 1974 4006-6040 – at a watch show, with me nodding on as to say it looks like a good ‘un.Sadly, it proved to be in need of a service shortly afterwards as you’d expect from a 40+ year old mechanical thing that might have lain still for 20 years, and had all its oil dry up. The Jewel count is basically a way of a watch maker to brag how well they’ve manufactured the movement it tells you that this thing will last for a long time since the jewels are what stops metal rubbing against metal inside the beating heart of a ticking watch.Seiko even did a brand called Business Bell, only for a few months, in an attempt to sell to higher end buyers. Here it is with its blue, departed, cousin:They’re both reference 4006-6031 – the blue one is from October ‘72 while the grey one is from April of the same year.Seiko did a load of other case styles for Bell-Matics, too – most had 17-jewel movements but the odd rare one with 27 jewels. ![]() ![]() It came from eBay, and a less-good watch was later bought & then sold to harvest the “coffin link” bracelet that now adorns this one. ![]() Great taste, too.I managed to acquire another similar watch, with a grey face, that wasn’t in quite as good nick but not very far off.
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