A Seiko King Quartz 0853-8025 from December 1976
It is very easy to take the view that the quartz revolution represented some sort of cataclysm for traditional watchmaking. …
It is very easy to take the view that the quartz revolution represented some sort of cataclysm for traditional watchmaking. …
The underlying philosophy of Seiko’s movement designers towards the end of the 1950’s appears to have been defined to some …
Between 1924, when K. Hattori & Co., Ltd. first used the Seiko brand on a watch, and 1950, when it …
Four years ago I spent the grand sum of £8.73 plus postage on a small carboard box filled with what …
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By way of an epilogue to the most recent entry, I submit here a link to a review of sorts …
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It has been a little while since I last posted here I know. This intermission has been due to a …
The 83 series watches seem curiously neglected from most accounts of Seiko’s achievements in the 1960’s. Early on in the …
The verb ‘to squirrel’ derives most obviously from the foraging habits of that most iconic of tree-dwelling rodents and is …
By some weird quirk of the ebb and flow of taste, fashion and the power of marketing, that most evocative …