Men's well preserved vintage 1970's Swiss 17 jewel, manual wind wristwatch. Running great and keeping time!

This is a very well preserved vintage 1970's Swiss 17 jewel, manual wind men's unisex genuine Walt Disney Productions Mickey Mouse wristwatch

The chrome-plated case measures 331.1 mm / 1.30 " in diameter, excluding crown and lugs, and surrounds a crisp white dial with Mickey front and center with his orange shoes and red gloved hands pointing out the correct time pointed to the black Arabic numbers and outer chapter, all under a bright new crystal!

The Swiss, 17 jewel, cal. 29UT from Universal Time Corp. was developed by Seiko. It sets and winds as it should, is running well and keeping very good time.

It has a stainless steel, screw-down back and has been fitted with a new Speidel black leather strap.

STOCK CODE M-11

SEIKO AND MICKEY MOUSE WATCHES:

But the most interesting of these mass-produced Mickeys were made by Seiko from 1986 to the late 1990s.

At that time, buyers became more interested in fashion watches, and there was a kind of ironic cool in wearing a kid’s watch. We chatted with American Seiko and Mickey collector Kerry, who goes by the Instagram handle @vintagecharactertime about the importance of the Seiko era in keeping Mickey relevant. “Seiko steered towards adult markets with low-end watches coming in around $100 to $1,400 on the high end.”

Seiko Mickey

“Seiko and Disney made some of the best-looking Mickey watches,” says Kerry of his attraction to the collaboration. “Not only under the Seiko brand, but subsidiaries like Lorus and Pulsar. There are literally thousands of different designs just from the low-end Lorus alone, but the Seikos are still highly sought after by collectors. For popularity, a watch called the Sunburst Mickey sold very well. The model had two sizes for men and women.”

The rarest Seiko Mickey, says Kerry, is a mechanical seven jewel piece produced for the Japanese market around 1970 that featured both Mickey and Minnie on the dial. “But the grail, in my humble opinion, is the 1990's solid gold 14K Mickey Mouse wristwatch. It was a very limited edition of 500 pieces and came in two styles, for men and women.”

Today, the Seiko Corporation still produces Disney watches. 99 percent are quartz movements, but there are still a handful of mechanical pieces. Any or all are worthy timepieces.


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