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Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling

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Category Archives: 6105

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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A hacking day date Seiko 6105 (and ruminations on modified watches)

Jun 16, 2013

The modified watch, in my experience, peculiarly appeals to the vanity of its creator rather more frequently than it does …

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Basket cases have more soul

Jun 3, 2012

The problem with true collector’s examples of any desirable vintage watch is that they can tend to spend very little …

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6105’s gallore

May 3, 2012

For those of you who were horrified by my desecration of a hodge-podge 6105 in my opening post (assuming of …

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The slippery slope

Apr 25, 2012

It is easy to identify where all this started.  A rash Ebay purchase landed a Seiko 6105-8110 diver’s watch from …

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