Category Archives: Vintage Watches

Today’s Watch – Citizen Seven Star V2, 21 Jewels

Posted on March 29, 2020 by sweephand

As the first week of ‘lock down’ nears its end here in the UK, I’ve started wearing some of the watches in my collection that don’t get (much) wrist time, partly to see if any are in need of some … Continue reading →

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Stay Safe, Stay Well

Posted on March 28, 2020 by sweephand

I hope everyone is keeping well during the Covid-19 crisis. It’s a strange time across the world at the moment with the ‘lock down’ measures most if not all of us are experiencing. It is also a very sad time … Continue reading →

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Quartz, but collectable…..

Posted on March 15, 2020 by sweephand

Although my collection covers Citizen’s mechanical and electro-mechanical watches, I have had to scratch a certain itch – and that is Citizen’s early quartz watches. I came to realise and appreciate that before mass production kicked this new technology was … Continue reading →

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Citizen’s 17 Jewel 150m Divers

Posted on February 20, 2020 by sweephand

I’ve just added information about the 17 jewel versions of Citizen’s 52-0110 and 51-2273 150m divers to my diver reference page. Both models can be identified externally by the lack of a jewel count on the dial, and internally by … Continue reading →

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New Addition to the Speedy Page

Posted on February 17, 2020 by sweephand

Just added Brian’s latest restoration to his 67-9313 ‘Speedy’ page. This is number 29, and here’s a quick link to the page: https://sweep-hand.org/brians-8110a-restoration-the-speedy-67-9313/

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Message for ‘Francesco’ about his 7803 Cosmotron

Posted on February 3, 2020 by sweephand

I had an enquiry from ‘Francesco’ via the enquiry form about his cosmotron. Unfortunately my reply is coming back as ‘undeliverable’, maybe because his inbox is full 😦 Hopefully Francesco will see this – and here is the reply I … Continue reading →

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Images are Back!

Posted on January 20, 2020 by sweephand

Looks like Photobucket has sorted their problem out, and my images are now visible again – please let me know if you encounter any issues, thank you.  

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Problems with some of my images

Posted on January 13, 2020 by sweephand

Apologies if you are unable to see some of my photos on the blog – quite a number are stored on the Photobucket site and they had a serious outage recently and some people, including me unfortunately, have not yet … Continue reading →

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Latest Restoration Added to the Speedy Page

Posted on October 13, 2019 by sweephand

Brian Leiser’s latest restoration is now added to his page – this time a white dialled example. More evidence that Brian is the man to send you watch to if your Speedy is in need of some TLC 🙂 Here’s … Continue reading →

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Just A Little Reminder…..

Posted on August 9, 2019 by sweephand

This notice is permanently visible on my home page: Copyright © Stephen Netherwood and Sweephand’s Vintage Citizen Watch Blog, 2016. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of images and material without permission is prohibited. I am happy to consider giving permission for … Continue reading →

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