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 …
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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 …
The waiting room
As I gear up for the next little adventure, it occurred to me that a glimpse into the waiting room …
And now for something completely different: the Seiko Elnix Electronic Watch
It is generally accepted that the death knell for the mainstream mechanical watch sounded in 1969 with the introduction of …
The comfort of familiarity: A Seiko Sea Lion Weekdater from 1966
Notwithstanding the apocryphal association of the term ‘to live in interesting times’ with ancient Chinese curses, we are nevertheless, living …
A 52 year old Olympian: Seiko one-button chronograph from October 1964
Just as the 1964 Tokyo Olympics served as a celebration of Japan’s reemergence onto the world stage as a first …
