A Heuer pretender
From the mid-1980’s through to early ‘90’s, TAG/Heuer sold a range of rather nice 200m divers watches fitted with somewhat …
Category Archives: Diver’s Watches
A 62mas special
Shortly before finding the elusive ill-described 62mas featured in a previous post (here), and which I’d been holding out for …
A 62mas tale
The Seiko 6105 is arguably the most glamourous of the Seiko 150m mid-tier divers’ watches, the 6309 the most ubiquitous …
Basket cases have more soul
The problem with true collector’s examples of any desirable vintage watch is that they can tend to spend very little …
SKX Pilot (a thirty minute mod)
Take one Seiko SKX007J (or K*), one machined bezel, one Seiko 7S26 fit MkII Plongeur dial (day/date variant) Image credit: …
A do-it-yourself Omega Seamaster 300
As is often the case with me, a somewhat impulsive eBay bid with no real agenda starts a ball rolling …
Anatomy of a vintage watch revival
A staple of many watch enthusiasts’ collections is the pick-up-and-go watch. The trusty quartz, ticking away in the watch box, …
A classic cushion
Arguably the most ubiquitous, yet still desirable Seiko divers watch of the past 35 years is the 6309-7040, the successor …
A brace for the ladies
The small ladies diving watches produced by Seiko in the 1970’s and 80’s are beautiful little watches with some exquisite …
6105’s gallore
For those of you who were horrified by my desecration of a hodge-podge 6105 in my opening post (assuming of …
Ugly duckling conversions
On occasion, complete junk can provide the source of a diverting little project or two. Early on in my dabbling …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 