1964 and all that: Part I
An idle quest for a birth year watch earlier this year landed two, each one interesting for different reasons and …
Category Archives: Vintage
The Seiko 6138B: a bridge too far?
A year or so after the release of their first automatic chronograph (the 6139), Seiko followed up with the 6138A, …
A 62mas tale
The Seiko 6105 is arguably the most glamourous of the Seiko 150m mid-tier divers’ watches, the 6309 the most ubiquitous …
Basket cases have more soul
The problem with true collector’s examples of any desirable vintage watch is that they can tend to spend very little …
A do-it-yourself Omega Seamaster 300
As is often the case with me, a somewhat impulsive eBay bid with no real agenda starts a ball rolling …
The Seiko 6139B deconstructed
In spite of the numerous potential pitfalls involved in buying a classic Seiko automatic chronograph, I found myself bidding on …
Anatomy of a vintage watch revival
A staple of many watch enthusiasts’ collections is the pick-up-and-go watch. The trusty quartz, ticking away in the watch box, …
An homage to a watch that never was
A few years ago, I came across a picture of a rather lovely, but unlikely Omega dress watch, combining a …
Bell-matic nostalgia
One of my earliest memories of taking any sort of interest in a wrist watch was as a child in …
Separated at birth: a pair of 6139’s
The 6139A was Seiko’s (and arguably the world’s) first automatic chronograph, released in March (?) 1969 and featuring quickset day/date, …
A classic cushion
Arguably the most ubiquitous, yet still desirable Seiko divers watch of the past 35 years is the 6309-7040, the successor …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 