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 …
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 …
Since March 2009, the Bank of England base rate has been at or below 0.5%. Currently it sits at a …
Hare-brained schemes and cunning plans are all very well but all too often they fall victim to the law of …
At about the same time as the first generation Seiko 6105 divers watch first made its appearance in 1968, so …
In constructing a heart-over-head case to acquire another short-lived object of desire, absolute reality trumps virtual any day of the …
In the eyes of a typical consumer on the hunt for a new wristwatch, the received wisdom is that a …