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I have a lot of watches with what I am calling an "internal bezel", like the compass ring around the dial of many "field" watches.

On all my Seikos, vintage through current, every single internal bezel is very loose, sloppy. …

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So I am enjoying my Seiko SBDN019 solar diver today, so comfortable, so legible! 🥰

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I was browsing through some old "WRUW" images on one of the Seiko watch forums and I scrolled past a picture someone posted of an unusual 2000s-era Seiko with the date window at 2 o'clock!

I own one of those watches, two actually, th…

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In the past I really liked the Italian "Bros" straps and some of the Hadley-Roma leather straps.

I used to buy them from my buddy Bob Davis at My Watchmaker (RIP), Rich Winslow at GlobalWatchBand and The Watch Prince.

I checked on Hadley-…

I was heading out to buy groceries, and I picked up my freshly unboxed 1997 Seiko SKJ004 kinetic diver. The crown will not turn!

I managed to get the back off without re-creating the Grand Canyon and the rotor-weight was detached! How do you do tha…

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Hello! Everyone wants to know, “Where did the boxes come from??”

I'll try to summarize, I was buying watches like any Seiko Collector, pouring over the Yahoo Japan auctions night after night. Then I had to move suddenly and at the new house I h…

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Ah, the Seiko Alpinist Bamboo Grove Thailand Save The Forest S…