A Big Fish Part 1: The Seiko 5718-8000 (Introduction)
This a tale of high-stakes adventure, technical challenge, agonising dilemmas and a degree of inevitable misadventure. It concerns a project …
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Sentimental value: A King Quartz 4823-8050 from 1976
In working on my own watches, the question of whether a repair or restoration is justified rarely elbows its way …
A Seiko Cronos J14013 from November 1958
Just as the birth of the Marvel in 1956 marked the beginning of a long line of Suwa-conceived models that …
A Seiko Cronos Special from 1963
In 1963, Seiko’s luxury goods line-up spanned no fewer than seven sub-brands within a pricing structure in which the most …
King Seiko 15034 from October 1962
The early evolution of the King Seiko product line saw a number of slightly dislocated yet entangled strands emerging in …
A Seiko 6217-8001 from April 1967
I have written on several occasions about the Seiko 62MAS and explored to some extent its place in the iconography …
A 60’s Seiko/Breitling Chrono Face-off
Two ‘60’s chronographs born two years apart: the older of the two, a youthful upstart; the younger an experienced older …
A waterlogged Seiko SKX007 from 2017
The following provides a disappointing insight into the risks of entrusting even the most trivial of tasks to ‘throughput-biased’ service …
Seiko 7016-5000 Monaco Fly-back Chronograph
The mechanical chronograph is arguably the most anachronistic variation on the theme of the mechanical wristwatch and yet it evokes …
