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Kochikame (1976)

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Shueisha's Jump Comics volume 93 of Kochikame

Kochikame (Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo, こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所), Osamu Akimoto's gag manga, was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from issue 42 of 1976 to issue 42 of 2016, collected across 200 volumes, a Guinness World Record. It follows Kankichi Ryotsu, an eccentric, scheming police officer at a small Tokyo koban, through episodic comedy built around whatever fad or gadget was current when each chapter ran. (Wikipedia)

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Seiko (unidentified model)
In ch. 4, "For Sale!! The Right to Appear in Kochikame" (売ります!!こち亀登場権の巻), a wealthy background character (Shiratori Reiji, per a fan-blog synopsis of the volume) shows off his fortune, only to be overshadowed the moment fellow officer Nakagawa arrives; Nakagawa, canonically one of the richest characters in the series, wears a plain Japanese-made chronograph rather than anything ostentatious, the joke being that genuine wealth doesn't need to advertise itself. Begin magazine's own manga-watch feature identifies the brand as Seiko, hedging ("おそらく", "probably") that the specific piece is a chronograph nicknamed "Speedmaster" by collectors for its three-subdial layout (not an actual Omega), released around 1989; a contemporaneous X/Twitter discussion of the same scene and reply thread reaches no firmer consensus, with one reply suggesting a Grand Seiko instead. No source claims legible dial branding, and no interior panel has been independently viewed for this catalog entry. BookLive's free trial reader for this volume, otherwise real and click-navigable, cuts off at the end of ch. 1, short of ch. 4, so the identification stays at brand-only rather than a specific model. (Kochikame, ch. 4, p. 65, vol. 93; Begin; X/Twitter; igmonostone)
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