Perfecting the art of the sequel: The Seiko 6105-8110
One of the defining features of my time as a casual practitioner of watchsmithery, independent of the trajectory my tastes …
Category Archives: Diver’s
For want of a nail: The Seiko 2625-001B
October 1979. Pink Floyd put the final touches on the The Wall. Liverpool at the height of their pomp, embark …
Lady Diver: The Seiko 2205-0760
Many of the Seiko dive watches from the 1960’s and 70’s have rightly gone down as design classics, building a …
Side shake, loose ends and hand-me-downs
A somewhat unsatisfying consequence of the most recent 62MAS project, documented here, was the fact that a perfectly decent 6217A …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 