Early Seiko 5 : new sportsmatics

Everyone knows the Seiko 5 range and I won’t tell you the whole story, you will easily find it on other sites. It’s probably the most diverse range of watches, including dress watches, sports watches, chronographs, diver’s, ladies watches (in the 80’s), military style watches, etc. Some models are quite exotic, even with the moonphase […]

a pair of swimmers

Orient is often considered as a simple sub-Seiko brand (which is actually the case), but in the past, in particular in the 60’s, their production had a “je-ne-sais-quoi” that made their watches quite unique. The design was very attractive and they did their own movements. I really love some of their early models : Royal […]

A Landeron 48 chronograph

From the 40’s to the early 70’s, having a swiss chronograph was the goal of many watch enthusiast. But of course, not everyone could spend thousands of from-past-currency to get an Omega, a Longines or Rolex one with an in-house movement. So beside these prestigious brands, many manufacturers used generic chronograph calibres, made by Landeron, […]

A custom champion

I always try to keep the original condition of a watch, meaning beside replacing the crystal and the bracelet when the original ones are to worn, not to replace the hands, the dial or the case. But sometimes, you just don’t have a choice… When the dial and the hands are beautiful and the case […]

Who’s the King ?

The King Seiko range has been discontined in the seventies but the watch collectors didn’t forget it. At that time, it was the Grand Seiko competitor (you know, there were two distinct Seiko factories in the 60’s and 70’s, with their own models).The first models were purely mechanical (44KS & 45 KS), then the automatic […]

SUMMER HOLIDAYS

We are on summer vacation from the 18th of July till the 3rd of August. You will still be able to place orders on the listed watches but your order will only be processed from the 4th of August on. Have a nice summer !

COVID-19 NOTICE

COVID-19 NOTICE : our activity is normal again, we are able to ship worldwide. For addresses in France and in the EU (including UK), shipments are made on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Worldwide shippings (Asia, North America, Australia) are done twice a week. Please do note that the deliveries may be delayed (and will […]

Lord Matic, aka LM

The Lord Matic range was the mid range of Seiko in the early 70’s. Actually the first Lord Matic was introduced in 1968, the last one, in ca 1975. There were mostly two calibres available, the 5606 and the 5216, with similar characteristics. The second one is much rarer than the 5606. The styles of […]

Racine-enicaR

That Enicar brand name always sounded weird to my ears… The idea of the founder, Mr Racine, was simply to spell his name backwards. And voilà, Enicar was born. Behind what sounds like a joke is in fact a serious watch manufacturer, proposing very intersting models with always, as far as I know, a manufacture […]

A couple of Seiko 5 Sportsmatic Deluxe

We just listed two early Seiko 5 Sportsmatic Deluxe, fitted with a 7606 movement. Both are in very good condition, the earliest (1964) has the automatic symbol on the dial, the latter (1965) hasn’t it.Both models are really beautiful and perfectly representative of what Seiko was capable of in the mid 60’s.