Splitting a pair of eights Part 2: A Seiko Business-A 8346-9000 from February 1967
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
The verb ‘to squirrel’ derives most obviously from the foraging habits of that most iconic of tree-dwelling rodents and is …
1963 Omega Seamaster De Ville 165.020
By some weird quirk of the ebb and flow of taste, fashion and the power of marketing, that most evocative …
White heat: A Seiko 3823-7001 Quartz V.F.A from 1973
At the British Labour Party conference held in Scarborough in 1963, Harold Wilson, the then leader of the opposition, made …
King Seiko 5245-6000 from December 1971
As the 1960’s rolled into the 1970’s and the quartz juggernaut started to power its way through the foundations of …
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 …
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 …
