A wabi-sabi Seiko Cronos Sea horse from 1961
Many of you will be familiar with the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of wabi-sabi. It is a term that is difficult …
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Denouement: Breitling Top Time Part III
You know what? I think we are getting somewhere. This has been somewhat of a marathon of the unfamiliar, taking …
A Breitling Top Time 2002: Part II
Inevitably, on the lead up to Christmas, I buy too many cranberries. This year is no exception although somehow I …
A Breitling Top Time 2002 from 1965: Part I
Last Spring I developed a hankering for a quartz timing machine, the throughput of watches powered by the dark side …
A Grand Seiko in all but name: the Seikomatic 6216-9000
In his economic treatise on The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen first coined the term “conspicuous consumption”, referring …
Grand Seiko vs. Grand Seiko
The concept of the homage to glories past is one that the watch industry appears to have embraced of late, …
A Grand Seiko Self-Dater from 1965
The romantic overtures that led eventually to the conception and birth of the Grand Seiko line were played out through …
A couple of loose ends
A number of circumstances have conspired in the past few weeks to keep me from much in the way of …
Flawed genius: A Seiko Lord Matic 5606-8010
Navigating one’s way around the vintage Seiko model hierarchy is in one sense straightforward but in another extremely perplexing. Our …
Auction watch
Since March 2009, the Bank of England base rate has been at or below 0.5%. Currently it sits at a …
Form follows function: a Seiko Tuna 7549-7010 from 1983
What exactly constitutes an iconic watch design? Is it something that derives from design for its own sake and somehow …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 