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      • 5719
      • 6138
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      • 7018
    • Crown
    • Diver’s Watches
      • Cronos Sea horse
      • Silverwave
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      • 6105
      • 6306
      • 6309
      • 7548
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      • 0703
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      • 4502
      • 5245
      • 5626
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      • 2205
      • 2625
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      • 5740A
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    • Marvel
    • Sea horse
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      • 395
      • 603
      • 5106
      • 6205
      • 6206
      • 6216
      • 6218
      • 8305
      • 8346
    • Sea horse
    • Sportsmatic
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      • 0853
      • 2625
      • 38A
      • 3823
      • 4822
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • 9F82
      • 9943
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Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling

~ Restoration, modification and servicing of wristwatches

Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling

Category Archives: Reluming

A Seiko 5 Sports 7019-6030 from May 1970

Dec 27, 2021

In this, the third and final part of our mini-series on Daini-produced Seiko 5 Sports watches, we turn our attention …

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Seiko 5 Sports 5126-6010 from May 1969

Dec 4, 2021

Let’s get right into it, the introductions having been made in the previous entry.  In this, the second in a …

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A Grand Seiko powered 62MAS: Finished. Fin. The End.

Dec 21, 2020

Well, that took rather longer than anticipated.  This has been a very strange year for everyone, me included, and the …

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Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS revisited

Jul 14, 2020

10 years ago, I bought a rather ratty Seiko 62MAS.  Its movement was tired, its hour markers pock-marked with black …

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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.  …

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1963 Omega Seamaster De Ville 165.020

May 5, 2019

By some weird quirk of the ebb and flow of taste, fashion and the power of marketing, that most evocative …

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Third time’s a charm: 62MAS relume reloaded, reloaded

Nov 26, 2016

There are times when a wise man knows when enough is enough, when to cash your chips, to pull back …

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Flying saucer: the Seiko 6139-7020 Speed-Timer

May 25, 2015

Lazy accusations that Japanese watch companies ape the Swiss in their design cues can be knocked into a cocked hat …

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Perfecting the art of the sequel: The Seiko 6105-8110

Apr 5, 2015

One of the defining features of my time as a casual practitioner of watchsmithery, independent of the trajectory my tastes …

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Reluming a Seiko 6105 dial and hands

Sep 4, 2014

To lume or not to lume? That is a question that’s been percolating around my noggin for the few weeks …

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What lies beneath

Jun 5, 2014

A right of passage for those that dabble with vintage watches is to succumb to the charms of something that …

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Recent Posts

  • Citizen Ace Para Water A1307051 from 1962: Part 2
  • Citizen Ace Para Water A1307051 from 1962: Part 1
  • A little light relief:  a self-build 62MAS/Pelagos 200m diver’s watch
  • Changing the battery in a Grand Seiko SBGV009 (revisited)
  • The end of the beginning:  The Grand Seiko 4520-8000

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    • 9F82
  • King Seiko
    • 4420
    • 4502
    • 5245
    • 5626
  • Seiko
    • Bell-matic
    • Chronograph
      • 5719
      • 6138
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      • 7018
    • Crown
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      • Cronos Sea horse
      • Silverwave
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      • 6105
      • 6306
      • 6309
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • SKX
      • Sports Diver
    • Electronic
    • GMT/Navigator
    • Ladies’ watches
    • Lord Matic
    • Lord Marvel
      • 5740A
      • 5740C
    • Marvel
    • Sea horse
    • Seiko 5
    • Seikomatic
      • 603
      • 395
      • 5106
      • 6206
      • 6216
      • 6218
      • 8305
      • 8346
    • Sportsmatic
    • Quartz
      • 0853
      • 2625
      • 38A
      • 3823
      • 4822
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      • 9F82
      • 9943
  • Swiss
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    • Peseux
    • Rolex
    • Silvana
    • Tudor
    • ESA/ETA
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  • Military
    • Cabot Watch Company
    • MkII
    • Precista
  • Self-build

Top Posts & Pages

  • King Seiko 5626-7041 Officially Certified Chronometer from May 1974
  • Flawed genius: A Seiko Lord Matic 5606-8010
  • Twin Quartz:  A Seiko Grand Quartz 9943-8000 from June 1978
  • A Seiko King Quartz 0853-8025 from December 1976
  • WATER150mRESIST: A Seiko 7548-7000 from June 1982
  • Seiko Lord Marvel 5740-1990 from June 1964: A de-tuned Grand Seiko?
  • Hidden depths: A Seikomatic-R from 1966
  • Seiko V-type bonded crystals

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