A box fresh Seiko Instruments NH34: unfit for purpose
A reasonable expectation when buying a new movement from a watch materials house is that it will be fit for …
Category Archives: Seiko
Part 3: A King Seiko J14102E from May 1962
We begin this third instalment with the intake photographs showing the front and rear of the second of our two …
Part 2: A King Seiko J14102 from January 1963
With the introductions having been made in the preceding post, we can start this second entry with the customary mugshots …
The first King Seiko: Part 1
Just as the king is the second-highest ranked card in a deck of cards, so, from its outset, has the …
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 …
SEIKO ウオッチ機械台セット
Anyone who has experience working with a variety of different watch movement calibres will be familiar with the benefits and …
Loose-end trivia: date disk alignment and the Seiko instruments NH36
In sweeping up a few loose ends from the past few months of behind-the-scenes activity, this brief entry documents a …
A faux milspec 6309 revisited: Seiko 6309-8010 from 1976 and 1977
One of my longest-lived watches is a grab ‘n’ go beater, a bastardised aggregation of disconnected parts that came together …
Lift angle: Seiko Business-A 8346A and Bell-Matic 4006A
If you have ever used a timegrapher to measure the timing of a mechanical watch, you will have come across …
A Seiko Champion 850 Alpinist J13079 from May 1963
In 1959 Seiko released the Seiko Laurel Alpinist, a recreational sports watch designed specifically to meet the needs of Japanese …
Perturbations and the act of observation: A Seiko 6139-8040 from November 1974
In classical physics, a foundational principle is that it is possible to assign precise values simultaneously to all physical properties …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 