• Seiko
    • Bell-matic
    • Chronograph
      • 5719
      • 6138
      • 6139
      • 7018
    • Crown
    • Diver’s Watches
      • Cronos Sea horse
      • Silverwave
      • 62MAS
      • 6105
      • 6306
      • 6309
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • SKX
      • Sports Diver
    • Electronic
      • EL-370
      • 0703
    • GMT/Navigator
      • 6117
    • King Seiko
      • 4420
      • 4502
      • 5245
      • 5626
    • Ladies’ watches
      • 2205
      • 2625
    • Lord Matic
      • 5606
    • Lord Marvel
    • Marvel
    • Seikomatic
      • 395
      • 603
      • 5106
      • 6205
      • 6206
      • 6216
      • 6218
      • 8305
      • 8346
    • Sports
      • 603
      • 6106
      • 6119
      • 6601
      • 6619
      • 7606
    • Quartz
      • 0853
      • 2625
      • 3823
      • 4822
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • 9F82
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    • 6145
    • 6146
    • 6245
    • 9F82
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    • Silvana
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Category Archives: Seikomatic

A Grand Seiko powered 62MAS: Finished. Fin. The End.

December 21, 2020

Well, that took rather longer than anticipated.  This has been a very strange year for everyone, me included, and the …

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Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS: Updates, YouTubing, Resources

August 14, 2020

As might reasonably have been anticipated by your correspondent, the business of working on, filming, editing and uploading video content …

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Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS revisited

July 14, 2020

10 years ago, I bought a rather ratty Seiko 62MAS.  Its movement was tired, its hour markers pock-marked with black …

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8 years, 125 posts, 1 million page views

March 20, 2020

Next month marks the 8th anniversary of the first entry in this blog charting my adventures in amateur watch fettling.  …

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Seikomatic SilverWave 50 Proof from January 1963

July 1, 2019

Paradoxically, the year 1963 can simultaneously provide a historical reference point to the development of the quartz watch movement and …

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Splitting a pair of eights Part 2: A Seiko Business-A 8346-9000 from February 1967

June 2, 2019

The 83 series watches seem curiously neglected from most accounts of Seiko’s achievements in the 1960’s.  Early on in the …

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Splitting a pair of eights: Seikomatic-R/Business-A 8346-9000 Part 1

May 31, 2019

The verb ‘to squirrel’ derives most obviously from the foraging habits of that most iconic of tree-dwelling rodents and is …

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Compare and contrast: the Gold Cap vs. steel Seikomatic

October 9, 2018

When I was a young man, I never gave much thought to the relative merits of the gold watch. In …

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A Grand Seiko in all but name: the Seikomatic 6216-9000

November 8, 2017

In his economic treatise on The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen first coined the term “conspicuous consumption”, referring …

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The comfort of familiarity: A Seiko Sea Lion Weekdater from 1966

April 2, 2017

Notwithstanding the apocryphal association of the term ‘to live in interesting times’ with ancient Chinese curses, we are nevertheless, living …

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A technical tour de force: Seikomatic-P

November 12, 2016

In our meanderings through the Seikomatic universe of the 1960’s, we have thus far explored only those products of the …

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  • Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS: Updates, YouTubing, Resources
  • Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS revisited
  • A Seiko King Quartz 0853-8025 from December 1976
  • Evolution: A Seiko Crown from 1959

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  • Citizen
    • Parawater
  • Orient
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    • 5722
    • 6145
    • 6146
    • 6245
    • 9F82
  • King Seiko
    • 4420
    • 4502
    • 5245
    • 5626
  • Seiko
    • Bell-matic
    • Chronograph
      • 5719
      • 6138
      • 6139
      • 7018
    • Crown
    • Diver’s
      • Cronos Sea horse
      • Silverwave
      • 62MAS
      • 6105
      • 6306
      • 6309
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • SKX
      • Sports Diver
    • Electronic
    • GMT/Navigator
    • Ladies’ watches
    • Lord Matic
      • 5606
    • Lord Marvel
    • Marvel
    • Seikomatic
      • 603
      • 395
      • 5106
      • 6206
      • 6216
      • 6218
      • 8305
      • 8346
    • Sports
      • 603
      • 6106
      • 6119
      • 6601
      • 6619
      • 7606
    • Quartz
      • 0853
      • 2625
      • 3823
      • 4822
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • 9F82
  • Swiss
    • Breitling
    • Omega
    • Rolex
    • Silvana
    • Tudor
    • ESA/ETA
    • Valjoux
  • Military
    • Cabot Watch Company
    • MkII
    • Precista

Top Posts & Pages

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  • Hidden depths: A Seikomatic-R from 1966
  • King Seiko 5245-6000 from December 1971
  • A technical tour de force: Seikomatic-P
  • A Grand Seiko in all but name: the Seikomatic 6216-9000
  • A Kind of Blue: the Seiko 6119-8083
  • The King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic Part II: A Seiko 5626-7111 from 1972

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