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 …
Category Archives: Reluming
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. …
1963 Omega Seamaster De Ville 165.020
By some weird quirk of the ebb and flow of taste, fashion and the power of marketing, that most evocative …
Third time’s a charm: 62MAS relume reloaded, reloaded
There are times when a wise man knows when enough is enough, when to cash your chips, to pull back …
Flying saucer: the Seiko 6139-7020 Speed-Timer
Lazy accusations that Japanese watch companies ape the Swiss in their design cues can be knocked into a cocked hat …
Perfecting the art of the sequel: The Seiko 6105-8110
One of the defining features of my time as a casual practitioner of watchsmithery, independent of the trajectory my tastes …
Reluming a Seiko 6105 dial and hands
To lume or not to lume? That is a question that’s been percolating around my noggin for the few weeks …
What lies beneath
A right of passage for those that dabble with vintage watches is to succumb to the charms of something that …
A Seiko 6309-7040 Part II
Poised as we are at a stationary point, the transition state between ‘before’ (see part I here) and ‘after’, in …
Seiko Silverwave diver from 1964
The introduction of the 50m Seiko SilverWave dive watch in 1961 marked a number of firsts for Seiko: it represented …
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 …
