And the winner is …
The outcome of the question posed in the previous post and elsewhere produced a surprise, to me at least, and …
Tag Archives: King Seiko
Chasing my tail: Fault-detection and diagnosis in a Seiko 6139B
In the spirit of my ongoing compaign to embrace the seasonal urge to clean house, herewith the second of two …
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 …
Parallel Universe: The King Seiko 4420-9990 Chronometer
The current state of the Seiko universe is a function of the complex, multi-dimensional evolutionary path that it has followed …
Double glazing: The King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic Part III
I really don’t know what I was thinking tackling these two at the same time. You lot must be fed …
Seiko V-type bonded crystals
From about 1970, Seiko introduced an approach to many of their mid case designs that made use of Hardlex tempered …
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 …
…and rise again: disaster recovery
The now you see it, now you don’t moment last month was one of those occasions where one’s ability to …
Rise and Fall: The King Seiko 4502-7001
This is a tale of ups and downs, of resurrection and catastrophe. The subject is a high beat King Seiko …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 