Palate-cleanser: A Seiko Sea horse 6602-8990 from January 1965
In the second drawer down on the left-hand side of my desk sits a box, thirteen by nine and a …
In the second drawer down on the left-hand side of my desk sits a box, thirteen by nine and a …
Well, that took rather longer than anticipated. This has been a very strange year for everyone, me included, and the …
As might reasonably have been anticipated by your correspondent, the business of working on, filming, editing and uploading video content …
10 years ago, I bought a rather ratty Seiko 62MAS. Its movement was tired, its hour markers pock-marked with black …
It is very easy to take the view that the quartz revolution represented some sort of cataclysm for traditional watchmaking. …
The underlying philosophy of Seiko’s movement designers towards the end of the 1950’s appears to have been defined to some …
Between 1924, when K. Hattori & Co., Ltd. first used the Seiko brand on a watch, and 1950, when it …
Four years ago I spent the grand sum of £8.73 plus postage on a small carboard box filled with what …
Next month marks the 8th anniversary of the first entry in this blog charting my adventures in amateur watch fettling. …
The electronic balance-driven movement: horological cul-de-sac or brilliant piece of lateral thinking? I am inclined to think a bit of …
Intermission concluded and we rejoin battle, the movement parts having emerged fresh from their bath. I always clean the mainplate …