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. …
Next month marks the 8th anniversary of the first entry in this blog charting my adventures in amateur watch fettling. …
You know what? I think we are getting somewhere. This has been somewhat of a marathon of the unfamiliar, taking …
Inevitably, on the lead up to Christmas, I buy too many cranberries. This year is no exception although somehow I …
Last Spring I developed a hankering for a quartz timing machine, the throughput of watches powered by the dark side …
The romantic overtures that led eventually to the conception and birth of the Grand Seiko line were played out through …
A number of circumstances have conspired in the past few weeks to keep me from much in the way of …
Navigating one’s way around the vintage Seiko model hierarchy is in one sense straightforward but in another extremely perplexing. Our …
Since March 2009, the Bank of England base rate has been at or below 0.5%. Currently it sits at a …
What exactly constitutes an iconic watch design? Is it something that derives from design for its own sake and somehow …
It is generally accepted that the death knell for the mainstream mechanical watch sounded in 1969 with the introduction of …
Notwithstanding the apocryphal association of the term ‘to live in interesting times’ with ancient Chinese curses, we are nevertheless, living …