Recent YouTubery: Yahoo! Auctions, 62MAS restomodding, KS Hi-Beatery and Grand Seiko ASMR
Following a rather extended break from the YouTube platform, I seem to be settling into a more comfortable, and importantly, …
Category Archives: Grand Seiko
And the winner is …
The outcome of the question posed in the previous post and elsewhere produced a surprise, to me at least, and …
Five things I hate about post-2017 Grand Seiko (and a few that I like)
What follows is a kind of therapeutic purge, not to be taken too seriously, but all of which inspired by …
Seiko Lord Marvel 5740-1990 from June 1964: A de-tuned Grand Seiko?
Prior to the introduction of the first Grand Seiko in 1960, the pinnacle of the Seiko product tree was occupied …
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 …
Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS revisited
10 years ago, I bought a rather ratty Seiko 62MAS. Its movement was tired, its hour markers pock-marked with black …
8 years, 125 posts, 1 million page views
Next month marks the 8th anniversary of the first entry in this blog charting my adventures in amateur watch fettling. …
Grand Seiko 6146-8000 Restoration and Review | The First High-Beat Grand Seiko
By way of an epilogue to the most recent entry, I submit here a link to a review of sorts …
Over a barrel? A Grand Seiko 6146-8000 from 1969
This entry revolves around the appearance of an obstruction that turns out to be nothing of the sort but rather …
Grand Seiko 6146 projects past, present and future
It has been a little while since I last posted here I know. This intermission has been due to a …
Grand Seiko re-branding: misstep or confident stride forward?
For 40 years or so, Grand Seiko was largely unknown outside Japan, and certainly outside South East Asia. Grand Seiko …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 