Bell-Matic: The Seiko 4006-7021
In the world of the watch cognescenti, Seiko are routinely not assigned quite the credit that they deserve. On watch …
Category Archives: Vintage
Seiko 6138-8020 revisited
When last we left this revived classic panda-dialed 6138-8020 (see here), all seemed well, the only area of mild dissatisfaction …
A Seiko 6309-7040 Part II
Poised as we are at a stationary point, the transition state between ‘before’ (see part I here) and ‘after’, in …
A Seiko 6309-7040
This next project concerns what I believe to be the last real classic Seiko mid-tier divers watch, the Seiko 6309-7040, …
Seiko Silverwave diver from 1964
The introduction of the 50m Seiko SilverWave dive watch in 1961 marked a number of firsts for Seiko: it represented …
A faux milspec 6309
Sometimes, you buy a watch not because you like it particularly, but because you like something about it: a nice …
A hacking day date Seiko 6105 (and ruminations on modified watches)
The modified watch, in my experience, peculiarly appeals to the vanity of its creator rather more frequently than it does …
Tudor Addendum: Fitting a compression-fit acrylic crystal
The 1945 Tudor Oyster project described here left the watch essentially finished but for a somewhat loose domed acrylic crystal. …
A catalogue of errors: A Tudor Oyster from 1945
In 1945 my late father-in-law, who was serving in the army at the time, was posted to Nuremberg with the …
A 62mas special
Shortly before finding the elusive ill-described 62mas featured in a previous post (here), and which I’d been holding out for …
1964 and all that: Part II
The second of the two 1964 projects is a simple yet handsome 6601 automatic, again, slightly larger than might have …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 