Not all Speedmasters come from Switzerland
In one of my impulsive buying-at-auction moments, I picked up this little watch for what I thought was an OK…
When watch collecting turns to enabling others' obsessions
In one of my impulsive buying-at-auction moments, I picked up this little watch for what I thought was an OK…
The Chrono-matic story continues. I saw this watch on a watch trading forum which has its software rooted in the…
As mentioned in the Watch out for Franken Watches post, the first Heuers I appreciated were smaller cased, manual-wind Carreras.…
Malcolm (ex-RAF himself) had been looking for a Seiko RAF Gen 1 (as discussed previously here), but had been put…
Here’s another semi-random acquisition – I’d never even heard of this watch until I bought it, but as is the…
(see earlier missives on the 6139-600x, here and here) No mention of the Seiko 6139-6000 and its variants would be…
Seiko claimed numerous world firsts throughout their years, from (arguably) the first automatic chronograph, the first commercial quartz watch (which,…
50 years ago, Seiko was quietly producing what could arguably be the world’s first automatic chronograph. Other manufacturers were trying…