8 years, 125 posts, 1 million page views
Next month marks the 8th anniversary of the first entry in this blog charting my adventures in amateur watch fettling. …
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Recovered memories, blunders and saves: The Orient Star Sky Sports WZ0021FZ World Timer
A leisurely commute, peddling a pushbike or sauntering along on Shanks’ pony provides ample opportunity to allow one’s mind to …
The Seiko EL-370 electronic watch
The electronic balance-driven movement: horological cul-de-sac or brilliant piece of lateral thinking? I am inclined to think a bit of …
Citizen Super Crystal Date Parawater 150m Part II
Intermission concluded and we rejoin battle, the movement parts having emerged fresh from their bath. I always clean the mainplate …
Citizen Super Crystal Date Parawater 150m AUDS 52801-Y from April 1967: Part I
In reflecting on the impact of Japanese watchmaking through the 1960’s and 70’s it is all too easy to overlook …
Grand Seiko 6146-8000 Restoration and Review | The First High-Beat Grand Seiko
By way of an epilogue to the most recent entry, I submit here a link to a review of sorts …
Over a barrel? A Grand Seiko 6146-8000 from 1969
This entry revolves around the appearance of an obstruction that turns out to be nothing of the sort but rather …
Seikomatic SilverWave 50 Proof from January 1963
Paradoxically, the year 1963 can simultaneously provide a historical reference point to the development of the quartz watch movement and …
Splitting a pair of eights Part 2: A Seiko Business-A 8346-9000 from February 1967
The 83 series watches seem curiously neglected from most accounts of Seiko’s achievements in the 1960’s. Early on in the …
Splitting a pair of eights: Seikomatic-R/Business-A 8346-9000 Part 1
The verb ‘to squirrel’ derives most obviously from the foraging habits of that most iconic of tree-dwelling rodents and is …
1963 Omega Seamaster De Ville 165.020
By some weird quirk of the ebb and flow of taste, fashion and the power of marketing, that most evocative …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 