• Seiko
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      • 5719
      • 6138
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      • 7018
    • Crown
    • Diver’s Watches
      • Cronos Sea horse
      • Silverwave
      • 62MAS
      • 6105
      • 6306
      • 6309
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • SKX
      • Sports Diver
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      • EL-370
      • 0703
    • GMT/Navigator
      • 6117
    • King Seiko
      • 4420
      • 4502
      • 5245
      • 5626
    • Ladies’ watches
      • 2205
      • 2625
    • Lord Matic
      • 5606
    • Lord Marvel
    • Marvel
    • Seikomatic
      • 395
      • 603
      • 5106
      • 6205
      • 6206
      • 6216
      • 6218
      • 8305
      • 8346
    • Sports
      • 603
      • 6106
      • 6119
      • 6601
      • 6619
      • 7606
    • Quartz
      • 0853
      • 2625
      • 3823
      • 4822
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • 9F82
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    • Silvana
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Category Archives: Vintage

Grand Seiko 6146-8000 Restoration and Review | The First High-Beat Grand Seiko

October 10, 2019

By way of an epilogue to the most recent entry, I submit here a link to a review of sorts …

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Over a barrel? A Grand Seiko 6146-8000 from 1969

October 5, 2019

This entry revolves around the appearance of an obstruction that turns out to be nothing of the sort but rather …

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Grand Seiko 6146 projects past, present and future

September 11, 2019

It has been a little while since I last posted here I know.  This intermission has been due to a …

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Seiko divers watches from 1959 to 1979: Cronos Seahorse to 6306-7001

July 4, 2019

In completing the most recent project described in the previous entry, it occurred to me that it might be interesting …

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Seikomatic SilverWave 50 Proof from January 1963

July 1, 2019

Paradoxically, the year 1963 can simultaneously provide a historical reference point to the development of the quartz watch movement and …

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Splitting a pair of eights Part 2: A Seiko Business-A 8346-9000 from February 1967

June 2, 2019

The 83 series watches seem curiously neglected from most accounts of Seiko’s achievements in the 1960’s.  Early on in the …

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Splitting a pair of eights: Seikomatic-R/Business-A 8346-9000 Part 1

May 31, 2019

The verb ‘to squirrel’ derives most obviously from the foraging habits of that most iconic of tree-dwelling rodents and is …

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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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10 beats per second: The Lord Marvel 5740-8000

April 13, 2019

My daily cycle into work takes me across one of four Strays, each of which the remainders of common enclosed …

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Chasing my tail: Fault-detection and diagnosis in a Seiko 6139B

April 5, 2019

In the spirit of my ongoing compaign to embrace the seasonal urge to clean house, herewith the second of two …

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Third time lucky: A Seiko 6138-8020 Panda from September 1975

March 3, 2019

I am by nature a reflective person and if I’ve learned anything at all in my time as an amateur …

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      • 6306
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      • 7548
      • 7549
      • SKX
      • Sports Diver
    • Electronic
    • GMT/Navigator
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      • 5606
    • Lord Marvel
    • Marvel
    • Seikomatic
      • 603
      • 395
      • 5106
      • 6206
      • 6216
      • 6218
      • 8305
      • 8346
    • Sports
      • 603
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      • 6119
      • 6601
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      • 7606
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  • Swiss
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    • Silvana
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  • Military
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