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Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling

~ Restoration, modification and servicing of wristwatches

Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling

Category Archives: Dress watches

A Seiko King Quartz 0853-8025 from December 1976

Jun 10, 2020

It is very easy to take the view that the quartz revolution represented some sort of cataclysm for traditional watchmaking.  …

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Evolution: A Seiko Crown from 1959

Apr 12, 2020

The underlying philosophy of Seiko’s movement designers towards the end of the 1950’s appears to have been defined to some …

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Origin of the Species: a Seiko Marvel from 1956

Apr 4, 2020

Between 1924, when K. Hattori & Co., Ltd. first used the Seiko brand on a watch, and 1950, when it …

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Box o’ bits

Mar 29, 2020

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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The Seiko EL-370 electronic watch

Dec 25, 2019

The electronic balance-driven movement: horological cul-de-sac or brilliant piece of lateral thinking?  I am inclined to think a bit of …

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Grand Seiko 6146-8000 Restoration and Review | The First High-Beat Grand Seiko

Oct 10, 2019

By way of an epilogue to the most recent entry, I submit here a link to a review of sorts …

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Over a barrel? A Grand Seiko 6146-8000 from 1969

Oct 5, 2019

This entry revolves around the appearance of an obstruction that turns out to be nothing of the sort but rather …

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Grand Seiko 6146 projects past, present and future

Sep 11, 2019

It has been a little while since I last posted here I know.  This intermission has been due to a …

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Splitting a pair of eights Part 2: A Seiko Business-A 8346-9000 from February 1967

Jun 2, 2019

The 83 series watches seem curiously neglected from most accounts of Seiko’s achievements in the 1960’s.  Early on in the …

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Splitting a pair of eights: Seikomatic-R/Business-A 8346-9000 Part 1

May 31, 2019

The verb ‘to squirrel’ derives most obviously from the foraging habits of that most iconic of tree-dwelling rodents and is …

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1963 Omega Seamaster De Ville 165.020

May 5, 2019

By some weird quirk of the ebb and flow of taste, fashion and the power of marketing, that most evocative …

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Top Posts & Pages

  • Twin Quartz:  A Seiko Grand Quartz 9943-8000 from June 1978
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  • Seiko Lord Marvel 5740-1990 from June 1964: A de-tuned Grand Seiko?
  • Flawed genius: A Seiko Lord Matic 5606-8010
  • The last watch I would ever own:  Citizen Promaster PMT56-2731
  • A Seiko Champion 850 Alpinist J13079 from May 1963
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