Three into one: Seiko 5 Sportsmatic Deluxe 7619-7050 from November 1965
Two and a half years ago, I won a Yahoo Japan auction for a lot of seven watches, all but …
Two and a half years ago, I won a Yahoo Japan auction for a lot of seven watches, all but …
Anyone who has experience working with a variety of different watch movement calibres will be familiar with the benefits and …
In sweeping up a few loose ends from the past few months of behind-the-scenes activity, this brief entry documents a …
One of my longest-lived watches is a grab ‘n’ go beater, a bastardised aggregation of disconnected parts that came together …
If you have ever used a timegrapher to measure the timing of a mechanical watch, you will have come across …
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 …