Induction chargers that work with Seiko Kinetic

It seems that Energy Supply’s kinetic charger is discontinued, and the available stock remains very pricey ($230-ish). I’m wondering what are the alternatives for those of us who only wear Seiko kinetic occasionally.

Some people have some success with toothbrush chargers, but seeing that there are a lot more induction chargers available now, I thought maybe it’s time to start a thread to keep track of people’s experiments. Currently I’m aware of the following chargers but haven’t…

Induction chargers that work with Seiko Kinetic

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After 50 years of watches , my first Seiko 5

Well I got bitten by the Seiko advertising bug .
This bad boy is the sweet biter , took ,,,
$200aud of my blood whish is sweet when these are $400 – 700aud on ebay etc here .
Well it arrived today and the superstitious amongst us will note the ‘ Day Date ‘ 2 of the Seiko 5’s build and design works .

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Its almost mid winter here in Australia 8 degrees cold , so the photos are 2nd rate with the phone , sorry .

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After 50 years of watches , my first Seiko 5

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Regarding those Seiko 5606 movements…

I have one with the common broken plastic quick-set gear. The day/date changes with the time, so I manually adjust them.

What I’ve been doing is setting the day by passing midnight until the day changes, then going backwards until around 8:00pm, then forward again until the day advances; doing that until I get the desired day. I was wondering is there’s a way to adjust the date the same way? It seems the date just goes back and forth to the same date without advancing. Maybe I need to go…

Regarding those Seiko 5606 movements…

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