8 years, 125 posts, 1 million page views

March 20, 2020

Next month marks the 8th anniversary of the first entry in this blog charting my adventures in amateur watch fettling. …

King Seiko 5245-6000 from December 1971

January 8, 2019

As the 1960’s rolled into the 1970’s and the quartz juggernaut started to power its way through the foundations of …

November 23, 2018

The current state of the Seiko universe is a function of the complex, multi-dimensional evolutionary path that it has followed …

May 3, 2018

I really don’t know what I was thinking tackling these two at the same time. You lot must be fed …

April 29, 2018

From about 1970, Seiko introduced an approach to many of their mid case designs that made use of Hardlex tempered …

April 18, 2018

What is the difference between a design flaw and a design vulnerability? Simple. The latter is referenced in some detail …

April 8, 2018

To mark the end of the school’s Easter holiday period, three quarters of my immediate family went to see the …

January 30, 2016

The now you see it, now you don’t moment last month was one of those occasions where one’s ability to …

January 3, 2016

This is a tale of ups and downs, of resurrection and catastrophe. The subject is a high beat King Seiko …