One aspect of watch history that is both misunderstood and misrepresented is Seiko’s internal competition from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Collector Guide Seiko Factory History – Daini, Suwa, Fact and Fiction
Category: Grand Seiko
Curating the Collection Out With The Pogues, In With the Vintage Grand Seiko
If I had to sum up my collecting year I would say I have focused even more on vintage watches in 2020 while bifurcating the collection into a Seiko-only historical collection and a general everyday wear collection. In terms of the vintage Seiko pieces, I went older and smaller in 2020.
Monogamous Wrist Dec 2020 Edition
Our poor wrists bear the literal weight of our horological obsessions, and yet we never hear from them. It’s time to let our wrists speak! Allen’s Wrist The incessant pulse of Allen’s mechanical watch movements is the rhythm by which I live my life, and during 2020 that rhythm felt like a slow, somber dirge…. Read more »
Podcast Conversations E12 – The Quartz “Disruption” of the 1970s (w Pedro Mendes)
Pedro comes on to discuss his new-found acceptance of some quartz watches, and he and Allen end up discussing the Quartz Crisis from many different angles.
Insight How I Learned to Stop Hating, And Love Quartz
Ok, I’ll be honest, “love” is too strong a word. If I’m honest, this article should be titled: “how I learned to stop hating and try to appreciate some types of quartz watches.”
Owner Review A Hardcore Rolex Fan Buys A Grand Seiko SBGH273
If you’re reading this in the first place, you’re probably a “stuff” person, right? I don’t mean this pejoratively.