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 …
Category Archives: Dress watches
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, …
A Grand Seiko Self-Dater from 1965
The romantic overtures that led eventually to the conception and birth of the Grand Seiko line were played out through …
Flawed genius: A Seiko Lord Matic 5606-8010
Navigating one’s way around the vintage Seiko model hierarchy is in one sense straightforward but in another extremely perplexing. Our …
The comfort of familiarity: A Seiko Sea Lion Weekdater from 1966
Notwithstanding the apocryphal association of the term ‘to live in interesting times’ with ancient Chinese curses, we are nevertheless, living …
The Blue Bell: A Seiko Bell-Matic from 1971
The Blue Bell. A very small but perfectly formed, no nonsense traditional Edwardian pub in the heart of York. Hyacinthoides …
A technical tour de force: Seikomatic-P
In our meanderings through the Seikomatic universe of the 1960’s, we have thus far explored only those products of the …
Hidden depths: A Seikomatic-R from 1966
It is easy to develop a misapprehension, when first dipping one’s toe into the pool of what a particular watch …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 