Seiko Malcolm’s Seiko 7A38 14 Apr 201926 Mar 2019 Malcolm (ex-RAF himself) had been looking for a Seiko RAF Gen 1 (as discussed previously here), but had been put off a little by the prices of good ones –…
Tissot Tissot PR516 Chronograph 29 Mar 201929 Mar 2019 Here’s another semi-random acquisition – I’d never even heard of this watch until I bought it, but as is the way of these things, if you start researching, sometimes you…
Seiko Seiko 6139-600x–part iii – The Pogue 27 Mar 20198 Jan 2021 (see earlier missives on the 6139-600x, here and here) No mention of the Seiko 6139-6000 and its variants would be complete without talking about the moment it became known as…
Seiko Seiko “RAF Gen 1” 17 Mar 201917 Mar 2019 Seiko claimed numerous world firsts throughout their years, from (arguably) the first automatic chronograph, the first commercial quartz watch (which, at the time, was way more expensive than mechanical ones),…
Seiko Seiko 6139-600x–part i – as worn by Francois Cevert & Nick Mason 17 Mar 20193 Jul 2019 50 years ago, Seiko was quietly producing what could arguably be the world’s first automatic chronograph. Other manufacturers were trying to do the same – Zenith produced their goadingly-named “El…