• Dress watches
    • Bell-matic
    • Cronos
    • Elnix
    • Grand Seiko
    • King Seiko
    • Lord Matic
    • Sea Lion
    • Seikomatic
    • Sports
    • Rolex
  • Diver’s Watches
    • 6105
    • 62MAS
    • 6306
    • 6309
    • 7548
    • 7549
    • Silverwave
    • SKX
    • Ladies’ watches
    • Omega
  • Chronograph
    • Seiko
      • 5719
      • 6139
      • 6138
      • 7018
    • Valjoux
  • Quartz
    • 2625
    • 3823
    • 4822
    • 7548
    • 7549
    • 9F82
    • 536.121
    • 947.111
    • 955.112
  • Modified watches
    • DIY
  • Brands
    • Seiko
    • Grand Seiko
    • Breitling
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    • MkII
    • Precista
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Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling

~ Restoration, modification and servicing of wristwatches

Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling

Category Archives: Sportsmatic

This is not a military watch†: a Seiko Sportsmatic 6619-8280 from 1967

May 20, 2018

This is not a post about a military watch. This is a post about a watch that skirts around the …

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A Kind of Blue: the Seiko 6119-8083

June 21, 2015

The Seiko 5 was born in 1963, a sub-brand of accessibly priced mechanical watches created, according to Seiko, to be …

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Seiko Silverwave diver from 1964

October 30, 2013

The introduction of the 50m Seiko SilverWave dive watch in 1961 marked a number of firsts for Seiko: it represented …

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1964 and all that: Part I

July 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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Recent Posts

  • White heat: A Seiko 3823-7001 Quartz V.F.A from 1973
  • King Seiko 5245-6000 from December 1971
  • Three fat boys: A triptych of British Army-issued CWC G10 military watches
  • Parallel Universe: The King Seiko 4420-9990 Chronometer
  • Grand Seiko re-branding: misstep or confident stride forward?

Archives

Brands

  • Seiko
    • Chronograph
      • 5719
      • 6138
      • 6139
      • 7018
    • Bell-matic
    • Cronos
    • Diver’s
      • 6105
      • 62MAS
      • 6306
      • 6309
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • Silverwave
      • SKX
      • Sports Diver
    • Electronic
    • GMT/Navigator
    • King Seiko
      • 4420
      • 4502
      • 5245
      • 5626
    • Ladies’ watches
    • Lord Matic
      • 5606
    • Quartz
      • 2625
      • 3823
      • 4822
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • 9F82
    • Seikomatic
      • 395
      • 603
      • 5106
      • 6206
      • 6216
      • 6218
      • 8305
    • Sportsmatic
      • 6601
      • 6619
      • 7606
  • Grand Seiko
    • 5722
    • 6145
    • 6245
    • 9F82
  • Breitling
  • Cabot Watch Company
  • MkII
  • Omega
  • Precista
  • Rolex
  • Tudor
  • ESA/ETA
  • Fontmelon
  • Unitas
  • Valjoux

Top Posts & Pages

  • Flawed genius: A Seiko Lord Matic 5606-8010
  • Rise and Fall: The King Seiko 4502-7001
  • Bell-Matic: The Seiko 4006-7021
  • Face-off: Rolex vs. Grand Seiko
  • WATER150mRESIST: A Seiko 7548-7000 from June 1982
  • A Seiko 7018-7000 automatic fly-back chronograph from 1971
  • Parallel Universe: The King Seiko 4420-9990 Chronometer
  • A Grand Seiko in all but name: the Seikomatic 6216-9000

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