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      • 7548
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      • Sports Diver
    • Electronic
      • 0703
    • GMT/Navigator
      • 6117
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      • 4420
      • 4502
      • 5245
      • 5626
    • Ladies’ watches
      • 2205
      • 2625
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      • 5606
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      • 395
      • 603
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      • 6206
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      • 8305
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Category Archives: Chronograph

Chasing my tail: Fault-detection and diagnosis in a Seiko 6139B

April 5, 2019

In the spirit of my ongoing compaign to embrace the seasonal urge to clean house, herewith the second of two …

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A Seiko 7018-7000 automatic fly-back chronograph from 1971

July 14, 2018

I am as guilty as the next man in allowing my eye to wonder, to catch the latest metaphorical flash …

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Denouement: Breitling Top Time Part III

January 23, 2018

You know what? I think we are getting somewhere. This has been somewhat of a marathon of the unfamiliar, taking …

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A Breitling Top Time 2002: Part II

December 27, 2017

Inevitably, on the lead up to Christmas, I buy too many cranberries. This year is no exception although somehow I …

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A Breitling Top Time 2002 from 1965: Part I

December 24, 2017

Last Spring I developed a hankering for a quartz timing machine, the throughput of watches powered by the dark side …

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Auction watch

June 18, 2017

Since March 2009, the Bank of England base rate has been at or below 0.5%. Currently it sits at a …

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A 52 year old Olympian: Seiko one-button chronograph from October 1964

March 13, 2017

Just as the 1964 Tokyo Olympics served as a celebration of Japan’s reemergence onto the world stage as a first …

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Glam Rock: the Seiko 6139-7060

January 1, 2017

Towards the end of June 1975, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon entered its 118th week in the UK …

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Flying saucer: the Seiko 6139-7020 Speed-Timer

May 25, 2015

Lazy accusations that Japanese watch companies ape the Swiss in their design cues can be knocked into a cocked hat …

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A little bling is no bad thing

March 26, 2014

I find myself somewhat conflicted by the whole gilt/gold watch thing.   With a solid gold watch it’s the ostentation I …

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Seiko 6138-8020 revisited

January 28, 2014

When last we left this revived classic panda-dialed 6138-8020 (see here), all seemed well, the only area of mild dissatisfaction …

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  • Over a barrel? A Grand Seiko 6146-8000 from 1969
  • Grand Seiko 6146 projects past, present and future

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    • 4502
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    • 5626
  • Seiko
    • Bell-matic
    • Chronograph
      • 5719
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      • Cronos Sea horse
      • Silverwave
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      • 6105
      • 6306
      • 6309
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • SKX
      • Sports Diver
    • Electronic
    • GMT/Navigator
    • Ladies’ watches
    • Lord Matic
      • 5606
    • Lord Marvel
    • Seikomatic
      • 603
      • 395
      • 5106
      • 6206
      • 6216
      • 6218
      • 8305
      • 8346
    • Sports
      • 603
      • 6106
      • 6119
      • 6601
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      • 7606
    • Quartz
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      • 3823
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      • 7548
      • 7549
      • 9F82
  • Swiss
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    • Silvana
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    • ESA/ETA
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  • Military
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