Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS: Updates, YouTubing, Resources
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Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS revisited
10 years ago, I bought a rather ratty Seiko 62MAS. Its movement was tired, its hour markers pock-marked with black …
A Seiko King Quartz 0853-8025 from December 1976
It is very easy to take the view that the quartz revolution represented some sort of cataclysm for traditional watchmaking. …
Evolution: A Seiko Crown from 1959
The underlying philosophy of Seiko’s movement designers towards the end of the 1950’s appears to have been defined to some …
Origin of the Species: a Seiko Marvel from 1956
Between 1924, when K. Hattori & Co., Ltd. first used the Seiko brand on a watch, and 1950, when it …
Box o’ bits
Four years ago I spent the grand sum of £8.73 plus postage on a small carboard box filled with what …
8 years, 125 posts, 1 million page views
Next month marks the 8th anniversary of the first entry in this blog charting my adventures in amateur watch fettling. …
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 …
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 …
