Compare and contrast: the Gold Cap vs. steel Seikomatic
When I was a young man, I never gave much thought to the relative merits of the gold watch. In …
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The King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic Part II: A Seiko 5626-7111 from 1972
What is the difference between a design flaw and a design vulnerability? Simple. The latter is referenced in some detail …
A pair of kings: The King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic Part I
To mark the end of the school’s Easter holiday period, three quarters of my immediate family went to see the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Blue Bell: A Seiko Bell-Matic from 1971
The Blue Bell. A very small but perfectly formed, no nonsense traditional Edwardian pub in the heart of York. Hyacinthoides …
A technical tour de force: Seikomatic-P
In our meanderings through the Seikomatic universe of the 1960’s, we have thus far explored only those products of the …
Shabby chic: A Grand Seiko 6145
In constructing a heart-over-head case to acquire another short-lived object of desire, absolute reality trumps virtual any day of the …
