• Seiko
    • Bell-matic
    • Chronograph
      • 5719
      • 6138
      • 6139
      • 7018
    • Crown
    • Diver’s Watches
      • Cronos Sea horse
      • Silverwave
      • 62MAS
      • 6105
      • 6306
      • 6309
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • SKX
      • Sports Diver
    • Electronic
      • EL-370
      • 0703
    • GMT/Navigator
      • 6117
    • King Seiko
      • 4420
      • 4502
      • 5245
      • 5626
    • Ladies’ watches
      • 2205
      • 2625
    • Lord Matic
      • 5606
    • Lord Marvel
      • 5740A
      • 5740C
    • Marvel
    • Sea horse
    • Seikomatic
      • 395
      • 603
      • 5106
      • 6205
      • 6206
      • 6216
      • 6218
      • 8305
      • 8346
    • Sports
      • 603
      • 6106
      • 6119
      • 6601
      • 6619
      • 7606
    • Quartz
      • 0853
      • 2625
      • 3823
      • 4822
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • 9F82
  • Grand Seiko
    • 5722
    • 6145
    • 6146
    • 6245
    • 9F82
  • Citizen
    • Parawater
  • Orient
    • Orient Star Sky Sports
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    • Breitling
    • Omega
    • Rolex
    • Silvana
    • Tudor
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Tag Archives: Sports

Transition state theory: A brace of sports divers from 1969

October 2, 2016

This week, Ahmed Zewail, the Egyptian-American Nobel prize-winning chemist died. Zewail pioneered the field of femtochemistry, a sub-discipline within chemistry …

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A Kind of Blue: the Seiko 6119-8083

June 21, 2015

The Seiko 5 was born in 1963, a sub-brand of accessibly priced mechanical watches created, according to Seiko, to be …

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Seiko Silverwave diver from 1964

October 30, 2013

The introduction of the 50m Seiko SilverWave dive watch in 1961 marked a number of firsts for Seiko: it represented …

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1964 and all that: Part II

July 31, 2012

The second of the two 1964 projects is a simple yet handsome 6601 automatic, again, slightly larger than might have …

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1964 and all that: Part I

July 10, 2012

An idle quest for a birth year watch earlier this year landed two, each one interesting for different reasons and …

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An homage to a watch that never was

May 12, 2012

A few years ago, I came across a picture of a rather lovely, but unlikely Omega dress watch, combining a …

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Recent Posts

  • Seiko Lord Marvel 5740-1990 from June 1964: A de-tuned Grand Seiko?
  • A Seiko 7548-700B from June 1981
  • Palate-cleanser: A Seiko Sea horse 6602-8990 from January 1965
  • A Grand Seiko powered 62MAS: Finished. Fin. The End.
  • Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS: Updates, YouTubing, Resources

Archives

Brands

  • Citizen
    • Parawater
  • Orient
    • Orient Star Sky Sports
  • Grand Seiko
    • 5722
    • 6145
    • 6146
    • 6245
    • 9F82
  • King Seiko
    • 4420
    • 4502
    • 5245
    • 5626
  • Seiko
    • Bell-matic
    • Chronograph
      • 5719
      • 6138
      • 6139
      • 7018
    • Crown
    • Diver’s
      • Cronos Sea horse
      • Silverwave
      • 62MAS
      • 6105
      • 6306
      • 6309
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • SKX
      • Sports Diver
    • Electronic
    • GMT/Navigator
    • Ladies’ watches
    • Lord Matic
      • 5606
    • Lord Marvel
      • 5740A
      • 5740C
    • Marvel
    • Sea horse
    • Seikomatic
      • 603
      • 395
      • 5106
      • 6206
      • 6216
      • 6218
      • 8305
      • 8346
    • Sports
      • 603
      • 6106
      • 6119
      • 6601
      • 6619
      • 7606
    • Quartz
      • 0853
      • 2625
      • 3823
      • 4822
      • 7548
      • 7549
      • 9F82
  • Swiss
    • Breitling
    • Omega
    • Rolex
    • Silvana
    • Tudor
    • ESA/ETA
    • Valjoux
  • Military
    • Cabot Watch Company
    • MkII
    • Precista

Top Posts & Pages

  • Flawed genius: A Seiko Lord Matic 5606-8010
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  • The King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic Part II: A Seiko 5626-7111 from 1972
  • A catalogue of errors: A Tudor Oyster from 1945
  • Hidden depths: A Seikomatic-R from 1966
  • Seiko Lord Marvel 5740-1990 from June 1964: A de-tuned Grand Seiko?
  • A pair of kings: The King Seiko Hi-Beat Automatic Part I
  • WATER150mRESIST: A Seiko 7548-7000 from June 1982

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