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Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling

~ Restoration, modification and servicing of wristwatches

Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling

Category Archives: 6105

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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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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  • The last watch I would ever own:  Citizen Promaster PMT56-2731
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  • 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

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Top Posts & Pages

  • Twin Quartz:  A Seiko Grand Quartz 9943-8000 from June 1978
  • King Seiko 5626-7041 Officially Certified Chronometer from May 1974
  • Rise and Fall: The King Seiko 4502-7001
  • Crown revival: Seiko 6105 and 62MAS crown gasket replacement
  • Perfecting the art of the sequel: The Seiko 6105-8110
  • A Seiko King Quartz 0853-8025 from December 1976
  • A pair of kings: The King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic Part I
  • A Seiko 7548-700B from June 1981

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