White heat: A Seiko 3823-7001 Quartz V.F.A from 1973
At the British Labour Party conference held in Scarborough in 1963, Harold Wilson, the then leader of the opposition, made …
Category Archives: Dress watches
King Seiko 5245-6000 from December 1971
As the 1960’s rolled into the 1970’s and the quartz juggernaut started to power its way through the foundations of …
Parallel Universe: The King Seiko 4420-9990 Chronometer
The current state of the Seiko universe is a function of the complex, multi-dimensional evolutionary path that it has followed …
Compare and contrast: the Gold Cap vs. steel Seikomatic
When I was a young man, I never gave much thought to the relative merits of the gold watch. In …
Double glazing: The King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic Part III
I really don’t know what I was thinking tackling these two at the same time. You lot must be fed …
The King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic Part II: A Seiko 5626-7111 from 1972
What is the difference between a design flaw and a design vulnerability? Simple. The latter is referenced in some detail …
A pair of kings: The King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic Part I
To mark the end of the school’s Easter holiday period, three quarters of my immediate family went to see the …
Changing the battery on a Grand Seiko SBGV009
In the broader context of the somewhat intimidating business of tackling seemingly complex watch repair and restoration projects, it is …
A wabi-sabi Seiko Cronos Sea horse from 1961
Many of you will be familiar with the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of wabi-sabi. It is a term that is difficult …
A Grand Seiko in all but name: the Seikomatic 6216-9000
In his economic treatise on The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen first coined the term “conspicuous consumption”, referring …
Grand Seiko vs. Grand Seiko
The concept of the homage to glories past is one that the watch industry appears to have embraced of late, …
