10 beats per second: The Lord Marvel 5740-8000
My daily cycle into work takes me across one of four Strays, each of which the remainders of common enclosed …
Author Archives: Martin
Chasing my tail: Fault-detection and diagnosis in a Seiko 6139B
In the spirit of my ongoing compaign to embrace the seasonal urge to clean house, herewith the second of two …
Third time lucky: A Seiko 6138-8020 Panda from September 1975
I am by nature a reflective person and if I’ve learned anything at all in my time as an amateur …
White heat: A Seiko 3823-7001 Quartz V.F.A from 1973
At the British Labour Party conference held in Scarborough in 1963, Harold Wilson, the then leader of the opposition, made …
King Seiko 5245-6000 from December 1971
As the 1960’s rolled into the 1970’s and the quartz juggernaut started to power its way through the foundations of …
Three fat boys: A triptych of British Army-issued CWC G10 military watches
The Cabot Watch Company is arguably the best-known maker of British military watches. It was founded in 1972 and produced …
Parallel Universe: The King Seiko 4420-9990 Chronometer
The current state of the Seiko universe is a function of the complex, multi-dimensional evolutionary path that it has followed …
Grand Seiko re-branding: misstep or confident stride forward?
For 40 years or so, Grand Seiko was largely unknown outside Japan, and certainly outside South East Asia. Grand Seiko …
Compare and contrast: the Gold Cap vs. steel Seikomatic
When I was a young man, I never gave much thought to the relative merits of the gold watch. In …
Natural selection: A Seiko 6306-7001 from 1979
In 10 short years between 1965 and 1975, Seiko had somehow managed to conceive, design and produce three generations of …
A Seiko 7018-7000 automatic fly-back chronograph from 1971
I am as guilty as the next man in allowing my eye to wonder, to catch the latest metaphorical flash …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 