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Category Archives: Vintage
A Seiko 5 Sports 7019-6030 from May 1970
In this, the third and final part of our mini-series on Daini-produced Seiko 5 Sports watches, we turn our attention …
Seiko 5 Sports 5126-6010 from May 1969
Let’s get right into it, the introductions having been made in the previous entry. In this, the second in a …
Seiko 5 Sports transitions: 1969 to 1970
I open this present entry by paraphrasing the introduction to a post I made in June 2015 entitled A Kind …
Twin Quartz: A Seiko Grand Quartz 9943-8000 from June 1978
In the ten years that followed the release of the world’s first production quartz watch in December 1969, the cycle …
A Seiko 6139-8002 from February 1972
I bought my first Seiko 6139 chronograph in the summer of 2008, I think from an eBay seller in the …
The original Seiko Snowflake? A Seiko 38-7030 QT Quartz from June 1973
snowflake*/ˈsnəʊfleɪk/ Noun a flake of snow, especially a feathery ice crystal, typically displaying sixfold symmetry an overly sensitive or easily …
Girard-Perregaux Gyromatic 39 Jewels from 1959
Imagine for a moment that you are a marketing executive working for a long-established Swiss watch company in the late …
Seiko Lord Marvel 5740-1990 from June 1964: A de-tuned Grand Seiko?
Prior to the introduction of the first Grand Seiko in 1960, the pinnacle of the Seiko product tree was occupied …
A Seiko 7548-700B from June 1981
The second of my two palate cleansers conjures up memories of previously well-trodden paths and consequently offers a potential source …
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 …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 