Three into one: Seiko 5 Sportsmatic Deluxe 7619-7050 from November 1965

Apr 21, 2024

Two and a half years ago, I won a Yahoo Japan auction for a lot of seven watches, all but …

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 …

Dec 4, 2021

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

Nov 22, 2021

I open this present entry by paraphrasing the introduction to a post I made in June 2015 entitled A Kind …

Aug 13, 2021

I bought my first Seiko 6139 chronograph in the summer of 2008, I think from an eBay seller in the …

May 20, 2018

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

Jun 21, 2015

The Seiko 5 was born in 1963, a sub-brand of accessibly priced mechanical watches created, according to Seiko, to be …

Jul 10, 2012

An idle quest for a birth year watch earlier this year landed two, each one interesting for different reasons and …