A Grand Seiko powered 62MAS: Finished. Fin. The End.
Well, that took rather longer than anticipated. This has been a very strange year for everyone, me included, and the …
Well, that took rather longer than anticipated. This has been a very strange year for everyone, me included, and the …
10 years ago, I bought a rather ratty Seiko 62MAS. Its movement was tired, its hour markers pock-marked with black …
Next month marks the 8th anniversary of the first entry in this blog charting my adventures in amateur watch fettling. …
By way of an epilogue to the most recent entry, I submit here a link to a review of sorts …
This entry revolves around the appearance of an obstruction that turns out to be nothing of the sort but rather …
It has been a little while since I last posted here I know. This intermission has been due to a …
For 40 years or so, Grand Seiko was largely unknown outside Japan, and certainly outside South East Asia. Grand Seiko …
In the broader context of the somewhat intimidating business of tackling seemingly complex watch repair and restoration projects, it is …
In his economic treatise on The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen first coined the term “conspicuous consumption”, referring …
The concept of the homage to glories past is one that the watch industry appears to have embraced of late, …
The romantic overtures that led eventually to the conception and birth of the Grand Seiko line were played out through …