Changing the battery in a Grand Seiko SBGV009 (revisited)
In 2014, I bought a Grand Seiko SBGV009, part of the 50th Anniversary Historic Collection released that year, and an …
Category Archives: Dress watches
The end of the beginning: The Grand Seiko 4520-8000
The emergence of Grand Seiko as a high-end brand with staying-power took some time to resolve convincingly: four years passed …
Girard-Perregaux: repairs, loose ends and reflections on the practicalities of a vintage watch
I am one of those weirdos who buy old watches to use as they were originally intended. I buy watches …
Origins of the Seikomatic: A 30 jewel Seikomatic 15031D from January 1963
Seiko’s first wholly in-house automatic movement was the Gyro Marvel, developed in 1959 as an evolution of the Marvel/Laurel hand-wind …
Recent YouTubery: Yahoo! Auctions, 62MAS restomodding, KS Hi-Beatery and Grand Seiko ASMR
Following a rather extended break from the YouTube platform, I seem to be settling into a more comfortable, and importantly, …
King Seiko 5626-7041 Officially Certified Chronometer from May 1974
The King Seiko line was conceived and developed originally by the Daini Seikosha division as a luxury hand-wind watch to …
Twin Quartz: A Seiko Grand Quartz 9943-8000 from June 1978
In the ten years that followed the release of the world’s first production quartz watch in December 1969, the cycle …
The original Seiko Snowflake? A Seiko 38-7030 QT Quartz from June 1973
snowflake*/ˈsnəʊfleɪk/ Noun a flake of snow, especially a feathery ice crystal, typically displaying sixfold symmetry an overly sensitive or easily …
Girard-Perregaux Gyromatic 39 Jewels from 1959
Imagine for a moment that you are a marketing executive working for a long-established Swiss watch company in the late …
Seiko Lord Marvel 5740-1990 from June 1964: A de-tuned Grand Seiko?
Prior to the introduction of the first Grand Seiko in 1960, the pinnacle of the Seiko product tree was occupied …
Palate-cleanser: A Seiko Sea horse 6602-8990 from January 1965
In the second drawer down on the left-hand side of my desk sits a box, thirteen by nine and a …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 