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Category Archives: Swiss

Girard-Perregaux: repairs, loose ends and reflections on the practicalities of a vintage watch

May 2, 2022

I am one of those weirdos who buy old watches to use as they were originally intended.  I buy watches …

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Girard-Perregaux Gyromatic 39 Jewels from 1959

May 19, 2021

Imagine for a moment that you are a marketing executive working for a long-established Swiss watch company in the late …

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1963 Omega Seamaster De Ville 165.020

May 5, 2019

By some weird quirk of the ebb and flow of taste, fashion and the power of marketing, that most evocative …

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Denouement: Breitling Top Time Part III

Jan 23, 2018

You know what? I think we are getting somewhere. This has been somewhat of a marathon of the unfamiliar, taking …

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A Breitling Top Time 2002: Part II

Dec 27, 2017

Inevitably, on the lead up to Christmas, I buy too many cranberries. This year is no exception although somehow I …

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A Breitling Top Time 2002 from 1965: Part I

Dec 24, 2017

Last Spring I developed a hankering for a quartz timing machine, the throughput of watches powered by the dark side …

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A couple of loose ends

Sep 10, 2017

A number of circumstances have conspired in the past few weeks to keep me from much in the way of …

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Heuer pretender revisited: a quartz to auto conversion

Jun 26, 2016

It is not that common these days that I find myself confounded by a fault affecting a watch movement. Well, …

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Face-off: Rolex vs. Grand Seiko

Dec 10, 2015

In the eyes of a typical consumer on the hunt for a new wristwatch, the received wisdom is that a …

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Small and perfectly formed: A 1960’s Silvana diver

May 10, 2014

There is a sense that we may just be starting to see a shift away from the obsession with giant …

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Common denominator

Sep 21, 2013

Towards the end of the 1980’s three different manufacturers, Sinn, Tutima and Precista released low profile 200m rated divers watches, …

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  • Origins of the Seikomatic:  A 30 jewel Seikomatic 15031D from January 1963
  • Recent YouTubery:  Yahoo! Auctions, 62MAS restomodding, KS Hi-Beatery and Grand Seiko ASMR
  • King Seiko 5626-7041 Officially Certified Chronometer from May 1974
  • And the winner is …

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Top Posts & Pages

  • Twin Quartz:  A Seiko Grand Quartz 9943-8000 from June 1978
  • Origins of the Seikomatic:  A 30 jewel Seikomatic 15031D from January 1963
  • Flawed genius: A Seiko Lord Matic 5606-8010
  • Lady Diver: The Seiko 2205-0760
  • King Seiko 5626-7041 Officially Certified Chronometer from May 1974
  • Girard-Perregaux: repairs, loose ends and reflections on the practicalities of a vintage watch
  • A Seiko King Quartz 0853-8025 from December 1976
  • A Seiko 7548-700B from June 1981

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