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Seiko Pogue authentication part i – Bezels

13 Jul 201928 Dec 2020
I like a nice Pogue. The trouble is, a lot of 6139-600x watches you’ll find on eBay are less than straight – a great many have been put together or…
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Dive, Dive, Dive!

22 Jun 201929 Jun 2019
Tastes change over time, of that we can be certain. Sometimes fashion, maybe even just prejudice that is overcome – there are surely times when you totally dislike something that…
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Nick’s 6139-6002–a Poguey Birthday

25 May 201929 May 2019
I’ve been talking with Nick for a couple of years about watches and in particular about his desire to get a watch from the year of his birth – a…
Seiko

Seiko World Time #3 – three’s a crowd

11 May 201917 Apr 2019
Following on from the previous World Time diaries, another joined the fold a few weeks prior to the silver-faced ‘64 with the original bracelet. This one, an early model from…
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Seiko World Time #2 – the bracelets’ tale

20 Apr 201917 Apr 2019
Every since I got my first World Time, I’ve been hankering after getting a correct bracelet for it. For whatever reason, I tend to prefer watches with steel bracelets vs…
Seiko

Seiko Bell-Matic #2

16 Apr 201918 Apr 2019
A long time ago, I covered a previous Seiko Bell-Matic – an early 1970s watch with a mechanical alarm. That watch now rests with a Sean, a fellow in the…
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 –…
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 ii – elusive silver PROOF/PROOF

17 Mar 201925 Mar 2019
Following on from the previous tale of the 6139 as produced by Seiko in 1969, here’s a rare and interesting piece, or rather a brace of them. According to the…

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