I read Seiya’s post last year and obtained confirmation that the 4S35 was the very first 4S movement to be produced, before it became detuned to the 4S15 base caliber. Why detuned one might ask? Simply because the 4S35 is factory … Continue reading
Back to my regular programming. There are watches that I have flipped without a second glance, and watches that I have bought, sold, bought, sold… The watch that I’m writing about today belongs to the latter. Perhaps it was a … Continue reading
A friend decided to cracked open a rare 4S15 cream Alpinist today to see how the gasket that secures the secondary crown looks like. The curious thing about the Alpinist range of watches is that they are the few 200m … Continue reading
Saw a brand new 6R15 discontinued black alpinist today at a Seiko AD. First time seeing it in the flesh and it reminded me of the even older 4S variant, complete with cyclops and Mercedes hands. Those were truly THE … Continue reading
