• Seiko
    • Bell-matic
    • Chronograph
      • 5719
      • 6138
      • 6139
      • 7018
    • Crown
    • Diver’s Watches
      • Cronos Sea horse
      • Silverwave
      • 62MAS
      • 6105
      • 6306
      • 6309
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • SKX
      • Sports Diver
    • Electronic
      • EL-370
      • 0703
    • GMT/Navigator
      • 6117
    • King Seiko
      • 4420
      • 4502
      • 5245
      • 5626
    • Ladies’ watches
      • 2205
      • 2625
    • Lord Matic
      • 5606
    • Lord Marvel
    • Marvel
    • Sea horse
    • Seikomatic
      • 395
      • 603
      • 5106
      • 6205
      • 6206
      • 6216
      • 6218
      • 8305
      • 8346
    • Sports
      • 603
      • 6106
      • 6119
      • 6601
      • 6619
      • 7606
    • Quartz
      • 0853
      • 2625
      • 3823
      • 4822
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • 9F82
  • Grand Seiko
    • 5722
    • 6145
    • 6146
    • 6245
    • 9F82
  • Citizen
    • Parawater
  • Orient
    • Orient Star Sky Sports
  • Swiss
    • Breitling
    • Omega
    • Rolex
    • Silvana
    • Tudor
    • ESA/ETA
    • Valjoux
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Tag Archives: Dress watches

A Seiko King Quartz 0853-8025 from December 1976

June 10, 2020

It is very easy to take the view that the quartz revolution represented some sort of cataclysm for traditional watchmaking.  …

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Evolution: A Seiko Crown from 1959

April 12, 2020

The underlying philosophy of Seiko’s movement designers towards the end of the 1950’s appears to have been defined to some …

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Origin of the Species: a Seiko Marvel from 1956

April 4, 2020

Between 1924, when K. Hattori & Co., Ltd. first used the Seiko brand on a watch, and 1950, when it …

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Box o’ bits

March 29, 2020

Four years ago I spent the grand sum of £8.73 plus postage on a small carboard box filled with what …

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Grand Seiko 6146-8000 Restoration and Review | The First High-Beat Grand Seiko

October 10, 2019

By way of an epilogue to the most recent entry, I submit here a link to a review of sorts …

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Over a barrel? A Grand Seiko 6146-8000 from 1969

October 5, 2019

This entry revolves around the appearance of an obstruction that turns out to be nothing of the sort but rather …

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Grand Seiko 6146 projects past, present and future

September 11, 2019

It has been a little while since I last posted here I know.  This intermission has been due to a …

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Splitting a pair of eights Part 2: A Seiko Business-A 8346-9000 from February 1967

June 2, 2019

The 83 series watches seem curiously neglected from most accounts of Seiko’s achievements in the 1960’s.  Early on in the …

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Splitting a pair of eights: Seikomatic-R/Business-A 8346-9000 Part 1

May 31, 2019

The verb ‘to squirrel’ derives most obviously from the foraging habits of that most iconic of tree-dwelling rodents and is …

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1963 Omega Seamaster De Ville 165.020

May 5, 2019

By some weird quirk of the ebb and flow of taste, fashion and the power of marketing, that most evocative …

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White heat: A Seiko 3823-7001 Quartz V.F.A from 1973

February 5, 2019

At the British Labour Party conference held in Scarborough in 1963, Harold Wilson, the then leader of the opposition, made …

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Recent Posts

  • Palate-cleanser: A Seiko Sea horse 6602-8990 from January 1965
  • A Grand Seiko powered 62MAS: Finished. Fin. The End.
  • Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS: Updates, YouTubing, Resources
  • Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS revisited
  • A Seiko King Quartz 0853-8025 from December 1976

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Brands

  • Citizen
    • Parawater
  • Orient
    • Orient Star Sky Sports
  • Grand Seiko
    • 5722
    • 6145
    • 6146
    • 6245
    • 9F82
  • King Seiko
    • 4420
    • 4502
    • 5245
    • 5626
  • Seiko
    • Bell-matic
    • Chronograph
      • 5719
      • 6138
      • 6139
      • 7018
    • Crown
    • Diver’s
      • Cronos Sea horse
      • Silverwave
      • 62MAS
      • 6105
      • 6306
      • 6309
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • SKX
      • Sports Diver
    • Electronic
    • GMT/Navigator
    • Ladies’ watches
    • Lord Matic
      • 5606
    • Lord Marvel
    • Marvel
    • Sea horse
    • Seikomatic
      • 603
      • 395
      • 5106
      • 6206
      • 6216
      • 6218
      • 8305
      • 8346
    • Sports
      • 603
      • 6106
      • 6119
      • 6601
      • 6619
      • 7606
    • Quartz
      • 0853
      • 2625
      • 3823
      • 4822
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • 9F82
  • Swiss
    • Breitling
    • Omega
    • Rolex
    • Silvana
    • Tudor
    • ESA/ETA
    • Valjoux
  • Military
    • Cabot Watch Company
    • MkII
    • Precista

Top Posts & Pages

  • Flawed genius: A Seiko Lord Matic 5606-8010
  • Rise and Fall: The King Seiko 4502-7001
  • Parallel Universe: The King Seiko 4420-9990 Chronometer
  • A technical tour de force: Seikomatic-P
  • A pair of kings: The King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic Part I
  • The King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic Part II: A Seiko 5626-7111 from 1972
  • WATER150mRESIST: A Seiko 7548-7000 from June 1982
  • 10 beats per second: The Lord Marvel 5740-8000

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