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Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling

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Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling

Category Archives: Seiko

A faux milspec 6309

Aug 11, 2013

Sometimes, you buy a watch not because you like it particularly, but because you like something about it:  a nice …

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Variations on a theme

Jun 30, 2013

Two more SKX007 recreations now follow, both of which based on new but empty cases as the starting point and …

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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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A 62mas special

Oct 3, 2012

Shortly before finding the elusive ill-described 62mas featured in a previous post (here), and which I’d been holding out for …

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An intermission: Notes on the 7S26 autowinder efficiency

Sep 24, 2012

Yes, I know, not desperately exciting, but it cropped up recently, and so possibly worth documenting.  I’ve had a few …

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1964 and all that: Part II

Jul 31, 2012

The second of the two 1964 projects is a simple yet handsome 6601 automatic, again, slightly larger than might have …

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1964 and all that: Part I

Jul 10, 2012

An idle quest for a birth year watch earlier this year landed two, each one interesting for different reasons and …

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The Seiko 6138B: a bridge too far?

Jun 28, 2012

A year or so after the release of their first automatic chronograph (the 6139), Seiko followed up with the 6138A, …

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A 62mas tale

Jun 13, 2012

The Seiko 6105 is arguably the most glamourous of the Seiko 150m mid-tier divers’ watches, the 6309 the most ubiquitous …

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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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SKX Pilot (a thirty minute mod)

May 29, 2012

Take one Seiko SKX007J (or K*), one machined bezel, one Seiko 7S26 fit MkII Plongeur dial (day/date variant) Image credit: …

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Recent Posts

  • A Big Fish Part 4:  The Seiko 5718-8000 (Casing Parts, Movement Loose Ends and Final Assembly)
  • A Big Fish Part 3:  The Seiko 5718-8000 (Assessing the Damage and Rebuilding the Movement)
  • A Big Fish Part 2:  The Seiko 5718-8000 (Dismantling the Movement)
  • A Big Fish Part 1:  The Seiko 5718-8000 (Introduction)
  • Sentimental value:  A King Quartz 4823-8050 from 1976

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Top Posts & Pages

  • Rise and Fall: The King Seiko 4502-7001
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  • Perfecting the art of the sequel: The Seiko 6105-8110
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  • Service enquiries
  • A Kind of Blue: the Seiko 6119-8083
  • Twin Quartz:  A Seiko Grand Quartz 9943-8000 from June 1978
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