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In Response To: Yet Another Banana Offered in the Market ()

Wow there are a lot of EXCELLENT's in that TZ description. I suppose that must make mine "absolutely MINT!! " (with 2 exclamation marks !! )

They are great watches & quite rare. But they do pup up now & then on eBay for considerably less than Cliff claims is the market price, ( See link below ).

There is little Info about these on the internet. I wonder which dial came first. The dial WITH depth rating as shown in Jeff's original post



or the dial without



based on the dates of the folllowing manuals/leaflets I'm tending towards the conclusion that the earlier models had the depth rating & the later models didn't, but as I'm just about to show, leaflets/brochures can sometimes mislead as much as they can help.

Another thing I find quite interesting about these watches is that the Catalogue pics seems to show the watch with a WHITE Date wheel as show here



& here



Or in the next leaflet.

But most of the watches offered on the market nowadays have a BLACK date wheel. I have seen so many with a black date wheel that I believe it is 100% correct. It would be no problem to fit a white date wheel ( from any 565 movement ), but it significantly changes the watches appearance IMHO ( & not an improvement either :-( )

BTW - I also host a "users manual" for this watch Click on the pic to see the complete manual


Actually the manual is more of a gerneral manual for the 565 movement, but the "Banana" is clearly pictured on the cover.

S.

eBay Banana Seamaster
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