4822A: King Quartz Part 2
Well, I could hardly leave the poor thing ticking away, whilst laboring against the possible impediment of increasingly viscous 40 …
Tag Archives: Vintage
Seiko King Quartz 4822-8000: An unrecognised gem
Leafing through Volume 1 of the Seiko watch catalogue from 1976*, one is struck by how much the quartz revolution …
A Kind of Blue: the Seiko 6119-8083
The Seiko 5 was born in 1963, a sub-brand of accessibly priced mechanical watches created, according to Seiko, to be …
Flying saucer: the Seiko 6139-7020 Speed-Timer
Lazy accusations that Japanese watch companies ape the Swiss in their design cues can be knocked into a cocked hat …
Perfecting the art of the sequel: The Seiko 6105-8110
One of the defining features of my time as a casual practitioner of watchsmithery, independent of the trajectory my tastes …
For want of a nail: The Seiko 2625-001B
October 1979. Pink Floyd put the final touches on the The Wall. Liverpool at the height of their pomp, embark …
A minor aristocrat: The Seikomatic 6218-8950
Oh dear. What have we here? Grist to my mill is what. Something most sane folk might reasonably consign to …
Lady Diver: The Seiko 2205-0760
Many of the Seiko dive watches from the 1960’s and 70’s have rightly gone down as design classics, building a …
Side shake, loose ends and hand-me-downs
A somewhat unsatisfying consequence of the most recent 62MAS project, documented here, was the fact that a perfectly decent 6217A …
Hot-rodding a Seiko 62MAS
Hot-rod verb \ˈhät-ˌrä-d\ To modify an engine to achieve higher performance In common with many watch companies of the …
Seikomatic Weekdater 6206-8990 from 1964
You need look no further for evidence that the 1960’s were truly a golden era for Seiko than the wonderful …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 