Seiko World Time #2 – the bracelets’ tale
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 Bell-Matic #2
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…
Malcolm’s Seiko 7A38
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 –…
Dave’s 40th birthday present
A while ago, Dave contacted me asking for help in finding a suitable watch for his 40th birthday that was then approaching, in 2018. His wife had been saving up…
Heuer Carrera Re-edition #2
An addition to an earlier post is this smart-looking white-dialled version of the “Carrera” reissue, which TAG Heuer brought out in 1996, reference CS3110 . Here it is, next to…
Tissot PR516 Chronograph
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 6139-600x–part iii – The Pogue
(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…
Omega Speedmaster – 1968
Fortune favours the brave, at least that’s what fortunate brave people will tell you. A fool and his money are soon parted, too. And so, this watch revealed itself to…
Seiko “RAF Gen 1”
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 6139-600x–part ii – elusive silver PROOF/PROOF
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…