Service: Orient DayDate / calibre 4694

You don’t have these on your bench too often. Orient is a Japanese watch manufacturer, and they make their own movements. That’s something I really like, because anyone can stick an ETA movement into a case.

How much cooler does it get? Not only do we have a TV/CRT type case, but we have an Arabic / English Day display. There is an extra button at 2 o’clock that lets you shift between English and Arabic for the day! Wow and wow, I’d learn Arabic just to be able to tell the day… an Orient / Occident shift button.

Very blingy, very 70s, very cool!

Dave from the UK sent in this watch, and it doesn’t tick, and shaking it doesn’t even move the balance. Ouch.

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Repair: Seiko World Time 6117-6400

As regular readers of my blog might know – there is nothing I like more than a watch with history, especially if it’s family history. And boy, does this watch have it!

It belongs to Mike, and it was his late father’s watch. His dad was a soldier with quite a bit of active duty in the 70s and 80s. He died in 1982, and left this watch to Mike’s younger brother. Mike was left one of his father’s army issue watches. Continue reading

Teardown + Service: Seiko World Time 6117-6400

This Seiko was sent to me for a service by Simon from Canada. There are two quite unusual features: the red 24 hour hand, and the fact that you can’t manually wind the watch. Only the auto winder winds it. The crown sets the timezone ring when not pulled out, and sets the date when pulled out one stop, and the time when fully pulled out.

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