Twin Quartz: A Seiko Grand Quartz 9943-8000 from June 1978
In the ten years that followed the release of the world’s first production quartz watch in December 1969, the cycle …
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A Seiko 6139-8002 from February 1972
I bought my first Seiko 6139 chronograph in the summer of 2008, I think from an eBay seller in the …
The original Seiko Snowflake? A Seiko 38-7030 QT Quartz from June 1973
snowflake*/ˈsnəʊfleɪk/ Noun a flake of snow, especially a feathery ice crystal, typically displaying sixfold symmetry an overly sensitive or easily …
Five things I hate about post-2017 Grand Seiko (and a few that I like)
What follows is a kind of therapeutic purge, not to be taken too seriously, but all of which inspired by …
Girard-Perregaux Gyromatic 39 Jewels from 1959
Imagine for a moment that you are a marketing executive working for a long-established Swiss watch company in the late …
Seiko Lord Marvel 5740-1990 from June 1964: A de-tuned Grand Seiko?
Prior to the introduction of the first Grand Seiko in 1960, the pinnacle of the Seiko product tree was occupied …
A Seiko 7548-700B from June 1981
The second of my two palate cleansers conjures up memories of previously well-trodden paths and consequently offers a potential source …
Palate-cleanser: A Seiko Sea horse 6602-8990 from January 1965
In the second drawer down on the left-hand side of my desk sits a box, thirteen by nine and a …
A Grand Seiko powered 62MAS: Finished. Fin. The End.
Well, that took rather longer than anticipated. This has been a very strange year for everyone, me included, and the …
Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS: Updates, YouTubing, Resources
As might reasonably have been anticipated by your correspondent, the business of working on, filming, editing and uploading video content …
Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS revisited
10 years ago, I bought a rather ratty Seiko 62MAS. Its movement was tired, its hour markers pock-marked with black …
