In this topic @Mandaue and I are attempting to collect all of the known Grand Seiko watches using the "Snowflake" dial. I'd like to invite the community to scrutinize this list, correct any errors in the data below, and offer additional references using the Snowflake dial, but that are not represented. In some cases it was difficult to find "official" renders – especially for case back views. If anybody has a better image please PM me so I can get the image from you…

Grand Seiko Snowflake-dial Reference

In another thread I made some rather unflattering remarks about the oscillators in my two MoonSwatch watches. No, the MoonSwatch isn't HAQ, but this thread isn't really about the MoonSwatch, it's about the source of my initial mis-appraisal of them, which is a topic that should be of interest to those of us living in HAQ-land – inhibition.

English being the somewhat wacky…

Inhibition and Quartz Testers

This was when I was on vacation last week (mentioning that because someone with an eagle eye is going to say the date on the watch was several days on the past).

My wife and I had planned to go visit our first tripoint. Those of you who know what a tripoint is probably know where this is headed. We had only become aware of this thing called a tripoint on this trip, and now I want to do more of them. Anyway, a tripoint is where three states come together at one point. We were planning on…

A frivolous but fun use of the Independently Adjustable Hour Hand (IAHH)

I've seen numerous people inquire, both here and elsewhere, as to what screwdriver to use on the Grand Seiko bracelet screws – the ones you have to remove in order to add or remove bracelet links.

To make what I'm going to write more clear I'm including this drawing explaining what I mean when I say "width" or "thickness", referring to either the slot, or the bit that we use to manipulate the screw. The drawing represents the face of the screw head, viewing the slot from above…

Made my own custom Grand Seiko bracelet screw tool

I searched but could not find the post from someone here recently that was lamenting not having a QT-99. Maybe it was a DM and that's why I can't find it (no search capability there).

Anyway, when I was going to bed last night eBay emailed a hit on a saved search for a QT-99 for sale. Even though I have one I guess I never deleted the saved search. This is the first chance I've had to come here and post it for whomever is looking for one, but sadly it has already sold. I say "sadly" but if…

QT-99 for sale on eBay but already gone

Over in the "2nd Annual WatchUSeek HAQ Florida Get Together held Sat., May 24, 2025" thread I mentioned that I had used portable power stations, combined with a power supply redundancy box I made, to be able to move my GPSDO from my house (where it had been online and "disciplined" for months) to the car, without the GPSDO losing power and starting from scratch. I didn't go into too much detail because I indicated that I'd do a…

High availability power for devices, and power stations to make them portable

OK, it was really just @Mandaue and I getting together for lunch while he was visiting Florida and we were within reasonable driving distance of each other. We met the same place that we did in February of 2024, but with a vastly expanded agenda.

This year we came prepared, both bringing gear to let us do some experiments and hopefully learn some things. We knew we'd need the…

2nd Annual WatchUSeek HAQ Florida Get Together held Sat., May 24, 2025

I debated adding this to the end of the Longines VHP Hand Alignment Question thread but felt that it might be easier to find for whomever might need it in the future, realizing that future person might even be me.

A friend of mine has the same Longines Conquest VHP Chronograph that I do – except his has the blue dial while mine has the white.

Just so we're all…

Latest Longines Conquest VHP – fixing improper date display

In various threads we've discussed how tiny and easy-to-lose the GS bracelet screws are. For something that actually needs to be manipulated now and again they are indeed quite small.

But if you think GS bracelet screws are small, you've never had to install or remove rate adjusting screws from an early 1970's Bulova Accuquartz. Those things are so small that you really have to wonder what infernal device they used to machine them.

For those of you who may not have seen one before, here's…

If you think GS bracelet screws are small…

I have to open by saying that I absolutely love the Longines Spirit Zulu Time. It's one of those watches where everything came together just right. The font of the applied numerals and on the bezel insert, the dial accents and printing, the applied elements on the dial, the style of the crystal, just everything.

But the one thing that I really didn't like about the Spirit Zulu time was the clasp. I didn't like the LONGINES text across the length of the clasp, I thought the clasp was very…

Replaced the clasp on my Spirit Zulu Time