Seiko & Citizen Watch Forum Message Archive

First of all, someone jump in and correct me if I'm stating this incorrectly, I think this is how it goes though. The 8000 and 8009 are the same watch. Seiko just assigns a 0 or a 9 as the last digit depending upon the country that the watch was exported to. I'm not sure where the 0's vs. the 9's were destined for though. So anyway, the same goes for the 8110 and 8119. The 800X series preceded the 811X series.

There are differences between the 8000(9) and the

8110(9). First of all there's the bezel. It's bi-directional without clicks on the 800X series. The 811X's are unidirectional with clicks.

The 811X's are also much larger at around 45mm vs 41mm. Some like the slightly asymetrical case design of the 811X's while others like the more conservative 800X's. For me, it really depends upon what day of the week it is.

Neither of the two watches can be manually wound, but some (maybe all) of the 811X's actually hack. One really nice feature that you get with the 800X's is a signed crown. A real rarity with Seiko both vintage or contemporary.

I'm pretty sure that only the crowns on the 811X series has that funky lockdown feature.

As far as I can tell, dial and hands of the two models are identical.

There may be more, but I can't think of anything else major off the top of my head.

Hope this helps.