Origins of the Seikomatic: A 30 jewel Seikomatic 15031D from January 1963
Seiko’s first wholly in-house automatic movement was the Gyro Marvel, developed in 1959 as an evolution of the Marvel/Laurel hand-wind …
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A Grand Seiko powered 62MAS: Finished. Fin. The End.
Well, that took rather longer than anticipated. This has been a very strange year for everyone, me included, and the …
Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS: Updates, YouTubing, Resources
As might reasonably have been anticipated by your correspondent, the business of working on, filming, editing and uploading video content …
Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS revisited
10 years ago, I bought a rather ratty Seiko 62MAS. Its movement was tired, its hour markers pock-marked with black …
8 years, 125 posts, 1 million page views
Next month marks the 8th anniversary of the first entry in this blog charting my adventures in amateur watch fettling. …
Seikomatic SilverWave 50 Proof from January 1963
Paradoxically, the year 1963 can simultaneously provide a historical reference point to the development of the quartz watch movement and …
Splitting a pair of eights Part 2: A Seiko Business-A 8346-9000 from February 1967
The 83 series watches seem curiously neglected from most accounts of Seiko’s achievements in the 1960’s. Early on in the …
Splitting a pair of eights: Seikomatic-R/Business-A 8346-9000 Part 1
The verb ‘to squirrel’ derives most obviously from the foraging habits of that most iconic of tree-dwelling rodents and is …
Compare and contrast: the Gold Cap vs. steel Seikomatic
When I was a young man, I never gave much thought to the relative merits of the gold watch. In …
A Grand Seiko in all but name: the Seikomatic 6216-9000
In his economic treatise on The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen first coined the term “conspicuous consumption”, referring …
The comfort of familiarity: A Seiko Sea Lion Weekdater from 1966
Notwithstanding the apocryphal association of the term ‘to live in interesting times’ with ancient Chinese curses, we are nevertheless, living …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 