The law of unintended consequences
Hare-brained schemes and cunning plans are all very well but all too often they fall victim to the law of …
Category Archives: Modified watches
Heuer pretender revisited: a quartz to auto conversion
It is not that common these days that I find myself confounded by a fault affecting a watch movement. Well, …
Hare-brained scheme: A high beat, hand winding Seiko 6105
At about the same time as the first generation Seiko 6105 divers watch first made its appearance in 1968, so …
Metamorphoses
In the grand tradition of the TV clip show, I thought I’d take advantage of a short hiatus in proceedings …
A minor aristocrat: The Seikomatic 6218-8950
Oh dear. What have we here? Grist to my mill is what. Something most sane folk might reasonably consign to …
Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS
Hot-rod verb \ˈhät-ˌrä-d\ To modify an engine to achieve higher performance In common with many watch companies of the …
A little bling is no bad thing
I find myself somewhat conflicted by the whole gilt/gold watch thing. With a solid gold watch it’s the ostentation I …
A faux milspec 6309
Sometimes, you buy a watch not because you like it particularly, but because you like something about it: a nice …
Variations on a theme
Two more SKX007 recreations now follow, both of which based on new but empty cases as the starting point and …
A hacking day date Seiko 6105 (and ruminations on modified watches)
The modified watch, in my experience, peculiarly appeals to the vanity of its creator rather more frequently than it does …
1964 and all that: Part II
The second of the two 1964 projects is a simple yet handsome 6601 automatic, again, slightly larger than might have …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 