Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS
Hot-rod verb \ˈhät-ˌrä-d\ To modify an engine to achieve higher performance In common with many watch companies of the …
Category Archives: Diver’s Watches
Reluming a Seiko 6105 dial and hands
To lume or not to lume? That is a question that’s been percolating around my noggin for the few weeks …
Seikomatic SilverWave fresh from 1963
This year is a significant year for me age-wise and I’ve been on the lookout for something suitable to mark …
What lies beneath
A right of passage for those that dabble with vintage watches is to succumb to the charms of something that …
Small and perfectly formed: A 1960’s Silvana diver
There is a sense that we may just be starting to see a shift away from the obsession with giant …
A Seiko 6309-7040 Part II
Poised as we are at a stationary point, the transition state between ‘before’ (see part I here) and ‘after’, in …
A Seiko 6309-7040
This next project concerns what I believe to be the last real classic Seiko mid-tier divers watch, the Seiko 6309-7040, …
Seiko Silverwave diver from 1964
The introduction of the 50m Seiko SilverWave dive watch in 1961 marked a number of firsts for Seiko: it represented …
Common denominator
Towards the end of the 1980’s three different manufacturers, Sinn, Tutima and Precista released low profile 200m rated divers watches, …
Variations on a theme
Two more SKX007 recreations now follow, both of which based on new but empty cases as the starting point and …
A hacking day date Seiko 6105 (and ruminations on modified watches)
The modified watch, in my experience, peculiarly appeals to the vanity of its creator rather more frequently than it does …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 