What lies beneath
A right of passage for those that dabble with vintage watches is to succumb to the charms of something that …
Category Archives: Seiko
A little bling is no bad thing
I find myself somewhat conflicted by the whole gilt/gold watch thing. With a solid gold watch it’s the ostentation I …
Bell-Matic: The Seiko 4006-7021
In the world of the watch cognescenti, Seiko are routinely not assigned quite the credit that they deserve. On watch …
Seiko 6138-8020 revisited
When last we left this revived classic panda-dialed 6138-8020 (see here), all seemed well, the only area of mild dissatisfaction …
A Seiko 6309-7040 Part II
Poised as we are at a stationary point, the transition state between ‘before’ (see part I here) and ‘after’, in …
A Seiko 6309-7040
This next project concerns what I believe to be the last real classic Seiko mid-tier divers watch, the Seiko 6309-7040, …
Seiko Silverwave diver from 1964
The introduction of the 50m Seiko SilverWave dive watch in 1961 marked a number of firsts for Seiko: it represented …
A faux milspec 6309
Sometimes, you buy a watch not because you like it particularly, but because you like something about it: a nice …
Variations on a theme
Two more SKX007 recreations now follow, both of which based on new but empty cases as the starting point and …
A hacking day date Seiko 6105 (and ruminations on modified watches)
The modified watch, in my experience, peculiarly appeals to the vanity of its creator rather more frequently than it does …
A 62mas special
Shortly before finding the elusive ill-described 62mas featured in a previous post (here), and which I’d been holding out for …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 