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 …
Category Archives: Diver’s
A little light relief: a self-build 62MAS/Pelagos 200m diver’s watch
You know, I do realise that this thing here, this documentation of activity spanning the past 14 years, skirts the …
An homage to a modified Seiko 6105
In common with many amateur watchsmiths, my early experiences with engine room interventions were largely concerned with revivification and modification …
A Seiko 7548-700B from June 1981
The second of my two palate cleansers conjures up memories of previously well-trodden paths and consequently offers a potential source …
Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS revisited
10 years ago, I bought a rather ratty Seiko 62MAS. Its movement was tired, its hour markers pock-marked with black …
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 …
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Paradoxically, the year 1963 can simultaneously provide a historical reference point to the development of the quartz watch movement and …
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 couple of loose ends
A number of circumstances have conspired in the past few weeks to keep me from much in the way of …
Form follows function: a Seiko Tuna 7549-7010 from 1983
What exactly constitutes an iconic watch design? Is it something that derives from design for its own sake and somehow …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 