A waterlogged Seiko SKX007 from 2017
The following provides a disappointing insight into the risks of entrusting even the most trivial of tasks to ‘throughput-biased’ service …
Tag Archives: Seiko
Seiko 7016-5000 Monaco Fly-back Chronograph
The mechanical chronograph is arguably the most anachronistic variation on the theme of the mechanical wristwatch and yet it evokes …
LM Special: a Seiko 5216-8010 from April 1975
The Lord Matic is a very peculiarly ‘of its era’ Japanese name for a sub-brand, and in the absence of …
12 years, 175 posts, 2 million page views
A little over four and a half years ago, I marked the occasion of the one millionth page view of …
A box fresh Seiko Instruments NH34: unfit for purpose
A reasonable expectation when buying a new movement from a watch materials house is that it will be fit for …
The first King Seiko: Part 1
Just as the king is the second-highest ranked card in a deck of cards, so, from its outset, has the …
Three into one: Seiko 5 Sportsmatic Deluxe 7619-7050 from November 1965
Two and a half years ago, I won a Yahoo Japan auction for a lot of seven watches, all but …
SEIKO ウオッチ機械台セット
Anyone who has experience working with a variety of different watch movement calibres will be familiar with the benefits and …
A faux milspec 6309 revisited: Seiko 6309-8010 from 1976 and 1977
One of my longest-lived watches is a grab ‘n’ go beater, a bastardised aggregation of disconnected parts that came together …
Lift angle: Seiko Business-A 8346A and Bell-Matic 4006A
If you have ever used a timegrapher to measure the timing of a mechanical watch, you will have come across …
A Seiko Champion 850 Alpinist J13079 from May 1963
In 1959 Seiko released the Seiko Laurel Alpinist, a recreational sports watch designed specifically to meet the needs of Japanese …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 