A Seiko Champion 850 Alpinist J13079 from May 1963
In 1959 Seiko released the Seiko Laurel Alpinist, a recreational sports watch designed specifically to meet the needs of Japanese …
In 1959 Seiko released the Seiko Laurel Alpinist, a recreational sports watch designed specifically to meet the needs of Japanese …
In classical physics, a foundational principle is that it is possible to assign precise values simultaneously to all physical properties …
You know, I do realise that this thing here, this documentation of activity spanning the past 14 years, skirts the …
In 2014, I bought a Grand Seiko SBGV009, part of the 50th Anniversary Historic Collection released that year, and an …
The emergence of Grand Seiko as a high-end brand with staying-power took some time to resolve convincingly: four years passed …
In common with many amateur watchsmiths, my early experiences with engine room interventions were largely concerned with revivification and modification …
Occasionally I ruminate over what combination of features might contribute to rendering the perfect watch. This is, of course, a …
Seiko’s first wholly in-house automatic movement was the Gyro Marvel, developed in 1959 as an evolution of the Marvel/Laurel hand-wind …
Following a rather extended break from the YouTube platform, I seem to be settling into a more comfortable, and importantly, …
The King Seiko line was conceived and developed originally by the Daini Seikosha division as a luxury hand-wind watch to …
The outcome of the question posed in the previous post and elsewhere produced a surprise, to me at least, and …