Heuer Carrera 1153N
The Chrono-matic story continues. I saw this watch on a watch trading forum which has its software rooted in the 1990s and despite having supposed rules about what is and…
When watch collecting turns to enabling others' obsessions
The Chrono-matic story continues. I saw this watch on a watch trading forum which has its software rooted in the 1990s and despite having supposed rules about what is and…
As mentioned in the Watch out for Franken Watches post, the first Heuers I appreciated were smaller cased, manual-wind Carreras. At the time, I thought the larger automatics from 1969…
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 –…
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…
(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 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),…
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…