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Restoration of a Seiko Watch - Historically Important Wristwatch
Aug 27, 2021
Richard Perrett Watchmaker
Restoration of a Seiko Watch. An historically important wristwatch. This time I restore a 1970s Seiko Quartz watch with the 7546 movement. These watches are historically important as they were the very wristwatches that rocked the whole wristwatch industry back in the mid 1970s. Mass job losses resulted in Swizterland when these early Seiko watches hit the market.
I am a very big fan of these early Seiko Quartz watches. They are very nicely built and retain a lot of similarity with their immediate mechanical predecessors. It's as if the guys at Seiko just took their already successful mechanical designs and merely retro fitted a quartz power pack. The torque in the power train is much lower than a mechanical watch and this makes the going train very fine and tricky to work with.
I do almost no talking in this video and just let the action on screen tell the story
Aug 27, 2021
Richard Perrett Watchmaker
Restoration of a Seiko Watch. An historically important wristwatch. This time I restore a 1970s Seiko Quartz watch with the 7546 movement. These watches are historically important as they were the very wristwatches that rocked the whole wristwatch industry back in the mid 1970s. Mass job losses resulted in Swizterland when these early Seiko watches hit the market.
I am a very big fan of these early Seiko Quartz watches. They are very nicely built and retain a lot of similarity with their immediate mechanical predecessors. It's as if the guys at Seiko just took their already successful mechanical designs and merely retro fitted a quartz power pack. The torque in the power train is much lower than a mechanical watch and this makes the going train very fine and tricky to work with.
I do almost no talking in this video and just let the action on screen tell the story