Mate I love your story at the end! PS I'm wearing an Aussie issue Pogue as I type this. So I had a weird and cool experience in Fiji as a teenager in the seventies. I was a huge fan of the Seiko Pogue - My science teacher had a blue one and I'd seen the yellow one and wanted one. So on our trip to Fiji me and my bro went on a watch hunt. Earlier on we ran into a bunch of omegas which I wasn't keen on when my sister walked in. She was 12. The store owner said "I'll give you this Omega for free if you can let me have your sister." I promptly grabbed my sister by the arm and got her out of there. Finally me and my bro happened upon some Seiko's. But these Pogues were rather special - I had no idea at the time how unusual these were. So instead of the one counter, these featured THREE sub-dials and the words "Chronometer Officially Certified. They had the day and date at 3 and the fixed pepsi bezel but lacked the inner rotating bezel. We loved them and so I bought the yellow one and my bro the blue one. I took mine swimming quite a lot with no problems and the pieces worked flawlessly. I suspect that they may have had Valjoux 7750s inside but they were definitely Seiko. Unfortunately mine was stolen about a year or so later and my bro sold his. I was gutted and have searched the internet for years but never seen this model and wondered whether I imagined the whole episode. I know that they were not quartz as it was only 1978 and Seiko had not yet released their quartz chronographs. So I bought this Pogue about 20 years ago and found a Swiss 7750 powered "Tradition" branded (made for Sears)yellow 3 sub-dial "Pogue" about 10 years ago. When I line both watches up side by side I see that the cases are identical. But the swiss one is not a "Chronometer Officially Certified".

Excellent review. My dad had this watch and I was promised I'd have it as an heirloom! Unfortunately, when he was climbing the Fox Glacier in New Zealand in the 1970's, it popped a springbar and fell down a crevasse in the ice. He came back to Ireland and it was always part of the story he told! I was climbing it myself in 2004, my dad had passed away at that stage and I remembered this watch, thinking maybe it had worked its way back to the bottom. No such luck, it's probably fairly crushed flat at this point anyway. So this made your review even more interesting. Much appreciated!

Great watch, accompanied by an even better backstory. Love it! 👍

Thanks James interesting video had never heard of these before. But an interesting watch and quite a looker too. One of my favourite bands back in the day were the 'Pogues' who took their name from the Anglicization of the Gaelic phrase 'Póg mo thóin ' 😜👍

Wow. Beautiful Pogue. Thanks for sharing.

Love the back story

For me this as a reissue would be marvellous.....

Thanks for WATCHing James

Excelent!!!!! Hermosa pieza y un gran legado familiar saludos desde Argentina

Wow what a great story and review. Thanks James

Classic watch.....I feel like its almost timeless. Could be produced again and would sell. Great story.

Great video and story. Thanks!

Nice watch but whoever did the movement service ripped you off. With a competent service these things should run in the 230s-240s as far as amplitude and can be regulated to near spot on accuracy. I know we’ve got less expectation when it comes to vintage watches but the movements can be made to be mechanically sound, and I’d consider that worth fixing on a watch like this.

Great story ... diving with a Pogue 🙂

Colonel POGUE wore the 6139 6005 resist

Had my blue face since new. Purchased in mid 1970's when I was in the Australian Army. 553048 Made in May 1975.

Great video and a lovely watch. Would love to buy it if you ever want to let it go, it's my birth year. Subscribed!

The Seiko would have been a better tool for Skylab than the Omega was. The Seiko has the timing inner ring bezel. Much handier for timing things (experiments, burns etc). The more useful feature would have been the day/date function. Skylab orbited the earth 15x per day. That's a lot of sunrises and sunsets. After 80 days in space, you'd lose track of what day/date it was. Omega had none of these important functions.

Love these, shame about the bracelet, they were distinctive. Thank Gid you got the endlinks, there's lots for sale without them.

Net time, don't record under a neon light. Use an LED or another non flickering (pulsating) light. Some people can be very sensitive to it.

Hey, I have a 6139-6002 (1971/ Blue Dial / Middle East). It is slightly damaged. But everything works properly and runs well. How much could I quote for the watch?

Iv just dug my 6139-6002 out and am researching it more closely. Is it rare to have the days written in Japanese do you know.

The real one was a 6005, made for the US market.

well, as far as I know the "real " Pogue is the 6139-6005

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Et belle montre bien sûr....

It's not a Pogue unless it has the water Resist on the dial , all others are NOT A POGUE .

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