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Owner Review: Seiko Credor Eichi II
There is a concept in Zen Buddhism referred to as Sunyata, a type of meditative awareness of the emptiness of existence meant to transcend the corporeal realm, thereby achieving a liberated state of being. As I look at the milky porcelain dial of my Seiko Credor Eichi II, I am lost in the myriad layers…
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Owner review: Seiko SSK001
If watch collectors were baptized into the hobby, owning a Seiko would be a nonnegotiable rite of passage. Everyone seems to have an affordable, beater Seiko story; given that I had never owned one, shortly after discovering watches I came to see myself as abnormal in some way. I imagined I would have a conversation…
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Owner Review: Citizen Caliber 0100
What is the purpose of a watch? Most fundamentally it is to keep the time, and to tell the time; to state as much is an objective statement of fact (otherwise I don’t know what we’re all doing). We can keep time in a few different ways, but quartz watchmaking, like the Citizen Caliber 0100,…
