The Seiko EL-370 electronic watch
The electronic balance-driven movement: horological cul-de-sac or brilliant piece of lateral thinking? I am inclined to think a bit of …
Tag Archives: Seiko
Over a barrel? A Grand Seiko 6146-8000 from 1969
This entry revolves around the appearance of an obstruction that turns out to be nothing of the sort but rather …
Grand Seiko 6146 projects past, present and future
It has been a little while since I last posted here I know. This intermission has been due to a …
Seiko divers watches from 1959 to 1979: Cronos Seahorse to 6306-7001
In completing the most recent project described in the previous entry, it occurred to me that it might be interesting …
Seikomatic SilverWave 50 Proof from January 1963
Paradoxically, the year 1963 can simultaneously provide a historical reference point to the development of the quartz watch movement and …
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 …
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 …
10 beats per second: The Lord Marvel 5740-8000
My daily cycle into work takes me across one of four Strays, each of which the remainders of common enclosed …
Third time lucky: A Seiko 6138-8020 Panda from September 1975
I am by nature a reflective person and if I’ve learned anything at all in my time as an amateur …
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 …
