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A Blog Worth Visiting

Posted on January 7, 2015 by sweephand

I’ve added a blog to the Blogroll today, which is certainly worth a visit. Called ‘the Watch Bloke’ it’s run by Duncan who services, repairs and restores vintage watches. His posts are very informative with great pictures of his work. Duncan’s latest post … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year

Posted on January 1, 2015 by sweephand

Thank you all for visiting and following my blog in 2014. I hope you have a peaceful and prosperous 2015.  Best wishes from Team Speedy! 🙂 Happy watch hunting! 🙂 Stephen

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This Week’s Featured Watch #66 – Deluxe, 19 Jewels, Stainless Steel

Posted on December 30, 2014 by sweephand

My last acquisition of 2014 arrived on Christmas Eve – shipping from Japan was quicker than much of UK domestic mail 😉  – and it’s turned out to be rather nice. With a limited budget I saw a Deluxe on Yahoo Japan, … Continue reading →

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Happy Christmas!

Posted on December 23, 2014 by sweephand

I hope you have a very happy Christmas, and I wish you all the best for a peaceful 2015. It’s a white Christmas for me 🙂 Thank you for visiting and following my blog.

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Citizen’s Para Water Logo

Posted on December 12, 2014 by sweephand

Citizen was the first company in Japan to launch a watch with a water resistant case, in 1959. In those days such cases were marked ‘Water Proof’, whilst Citizen generally used ‘Para Water’ instead, in line with their ‘Para Shock’ … Continue reading →

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Radioactive Lume

Posted on December 4, 2014 by sweephand

I am grateful to Mikko, from Finland, who has done some research on the types of lume used by Citizen on their dials. Mikko was interested in vintage divers and chronographs, and managed to get this information from Citizen: ” … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Featured Watch #65 – the Adorex 8050

Posted on November 30, 2014 by sweephand

Citizen produced three ‘Adorex’ models in the mid 1970s. It was their first automatic to feature a uni-directional winding rotor, and was launched using the 8000 movement. This had a unique feature, namely a fine tuning mechanism linked to the … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Featured Watch #64 – Cosmotron X8 4-480040

Posted on November 23, 2014 by sweephand

I’ve been looking out for the date version of the 0840 Cosmotron since I hadn’t previously found an example – designated the 4840, models with this movement were launched in 1970 and run at 21,600 beats per hour. Since my … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Featured Watch #63 – the 67-9631 Chronograph

Posted on November 11, 2014 by sweephand

Citizen’s mechanical chronographs from the 1970s are relatively well known, especially the ‘bullheads’ with the two sub-register 8110A movement. Known at the time as ‘Challenge Timers’ Citizen’s range of models also included single sub-register models – in fact these were the … Continue reading →

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Some Original Tools

Posted on November 9, 2014 by sweephand

I’m no watch maker, but it is good to be able to do some basic work, especially replacing crystals. So I recently got hold of this box: A well used box 🙂  Inside are some very nicely made crystal and … Continue reading →

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