Common denominator
Towards the end of the 1980’s three different manufacturers, Sinn, Tutima and Precista released low profile 200m rated divers watches, …
Previous articles
A faux milspec 6309
Sometimes, you buy a watch not because you like it particularly, but because you like something about it: a nice …
Variations on a theme
Two more SKX007 recreations now follow, both of which based on new but empty cases as the starting point and …
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 …
A Heuer pretender
From the mid-1980’s through to early ‘90’s, TAG/Heuer sold a range of rather nice 200m divers watches fitted with somewhat …
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 …
An intermission: Notes on the 7S26 autowinder efficiency
Yes, I know, not desperately exciting, but it cropped up recently, and so possibly worth documenting. I’ve had a few …
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 …
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 …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 