A faux milspec 6309 revisited: Seiko 6309-8010 from 1976 and 1977

Oct 22, 2023

One of my longest-lived watches is a grab ‘n’ go beater, a bastardised aggregation of disconnected parts that came together …

8 years, 125 posts, 1 million page views

Mar 20, 2020

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

Dec 19, 2018

The Cabot Watch Company is arguably the best-known maker of British military watches. It was founded in 1972 and produced …

May 20, 2018

This is not a post about a military watch. This is a post about a watch that skirts around the …

May 5, 2016

Preamble Great beauty is often associated with high symmetry: a snowflake, the Taj Mahal or a single molecule of Buckminsterfullerene …

Jun 15, 2014

One corner of the watch world that attracts a particular niche enthusiasm is that of the military wrist watch. Issued …

Sep 21, 2013

Towards the end of the 1980’s three different manufacturers, Sinn, Tutima and Precista released low profile 200m rated divers watches, …

Aug 11, 2013

Sometimes, you buy a watch not because you like it particularly, but because you like something about it: a nice …

Jan 27, 2013

In 1945 my late father-in-law, who was serving in the army at the time, was posted to Nuremberg with the …