Category Archives: Vintage Watches

Highness Timing Regulation Update

Posted on May 6, 2011 by sweephand

Three days on and the Highness is now running at about +5 seconds per day 🙂   Trying another tiny shift of the fine adjuster: Now it’s down to just a few seconds per day, moving the adjuster screw by a … Continue reading →

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Highness Timing Regulation

Posted on May 3, 2011 by sweephand

A short holiday means that the next featured watch will be posted at the upcoming weekend, so in the meantime here’s an update on fine tuning the Highness. I’ve had it on a watch winder for the last week to … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Featured Watch #2 – the Highness

Posted on April 24, 2011 by sweephand

This one wasn’t the planned featured watch for this week – but once it arrived, I thought I’d change the plan! So this week it’s the Highness, a high grade, high-beat automatic from the early 1970s. When I first started … Continue reading →

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Crystate update

Posted on April 20, 2011 by sweephand

A little added to ‘this week’s featured watch #1’, to include reference pictures. Further info can also be found found in the vintage Citizen section of Seikoholics Forum watch information database

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New Arrival, Part Deux

Posted on April 18, 2011 by sweephand

A couple more pics of the Highness – I think this one will be an early candidate for ‘watch of the week’  🙂  so for now here’s a quick peek:

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New Arrival!

Posted on April 18, 2011 by sweephand

Here’s a little trailer – I just took delivery of one of Citizen’s hard to find automatics. Only one pic so far…… Once I’ve done more photos I’ll post more about this rarity

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This week’s featured watch #1 -The Crystate

Posted on April 17, 2011 by sweephand

Here’s one of Citizen’s lesser known hand winders – the Crystate. First produced in 1967, I believe production ran to about 1971. Two models were produced, the Crystate and the Crystate Deluxe. Uniquely using the 0911 movement the standard version … Continue reading →

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New Pages Added

Posted on April 14, 2011 by sweephand

Ok, first off I’ve added a page on the Movement Table I’ve put together for the period 1931 to 1974. I hope this is proving to be a useful resource – it’s WIP and I’ll update it from time to … Continue reading →

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Why vintage Citizen wrist watches?

Posted on April 11, 2011 by sweephand

erm, good question 🙂 after my first rather random foray into vintage watches, snagging a few hand-winders mainly of Swiss origin, I started to research the merits of Japanese watches from the 1960s and 70s. I was impressed with reports … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the world of vintage Citizen timepieces

Posted on April 11, 2011 by sweephand

As a collector of vintage Citizen watches I have started this blog to provide a reference point, and through my own collection, provide representative examples  of the models that can be found from the heyday of mechanical watches for anyone … Continue reading →

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