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Thanks to everyone to took the time to express an opinion in either one (or both) polls, one here and one over on Instagram. The demographics may be slightly different between the two platforms because the results are somewhat different but the overall result is clear, if not a landslide. Nearly twice as many people voted on the blog than Instagram and the outcome of the blog vote couldn’t have been closer, with a very narrow victory for the Divers, narrowly pipping Grand Seiko and Seikomatic, tied in second place and with King Seiko just one vote back in an honorable fourth.
Over on Instagram, the divers were the least popular, with Grand Seiko a reasonably comfortable victor over Seikomatic, and with King Seiko, a very close third.
Overall though, Grand Seiko has emerged as the victor with a total of 40 votes, followed by Seikomatic at 35, King Seiko at 34 and Divers at 31. With that settled, we can move to the second part of the process which is to choose from the Grand Seiko contestants. I have narrowed the choice slightly to limit duplication but you will see that there are still two contestants with the same movement. The selection is as follows, in chronological order:
Grand Seiko 3180 from January 1963
Grand Seiko 43999 Self-Dater from November 1964 (same age as me!)
Grand Seiko 6146-8000 from October 1967 (a very early 61GS)
Grand Seiko 5722-9010 from November 1967
Grand Seiko 4420-9000 from December 1967 (the first Daini division Grand Seiko)
Once again, if you feel the urge, I’d be grateful for your input in deciding on the next project by making your selection in the poll below. I’ll let this run until it seems to be out of puff.
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 
Martin, I prefer your benevolent monarch approach to your projects and posts; you favour us with your choices, explanations, words and photographs, solely for your own pleasure while assuming, correctly, that we look over your shoulder, invariably with interest and curiosity, to see what you will achieve. But it is your interest, not ours, that makes the blog compelling.
Democracy is over rated, after all. Look at the mess we’ve made for ourselves with the popular vote elsewhere.
Decide the issue solely to meet your own interests and we will line the streets and cheer as you pass. So to speak.
William
PS, that 33 jewel Seikomatic sure looks compelling, though.
I take your point but it’s not often that I switch things around – this is only the second time I’ve done it – and it is as much for my own insight into the interests of the folk who choose to engage with me as it is an exercise in democracy. I am more than aware of the shortcomings of that institution but sometimes it is useful to reinforce its principles. I have a feeling though that the result of this exercise may align with my own impulse for what was to come next. But thank you very much for providing such a wise and thoughtful comment. I really do appreciate it.
p.s. I have a NOS case to go with that Seikomatic and it’s time I got around to making use of it!