To cap off a most interesting piece of research during the past few months, I was lucky enough to enlist the help of some past Smiths...

Although hard to pin it down to 1978…I suspect that is where the battered Smiths Astral I discovered on eBay came from. Usually I would...

We all know that J W Benson, Thomas Russell & Son and Croff ‘customised’ Smiths made dials, amongst many. Todays respiration is a real...

Busy day today…having had several cases restored, including my BWC cased watches and an A452, I had the pleasurable job of servicing and...

Today I have a little project of my own to work on. When I bought it…I suspected it was an early transition watch dating to around 1952…a...

An interesting Smiths Deluxe A404 in the workshop today. This one dates from 1958 and would have been one of the very last ‘Deluxe’ A404s...

Today, in the workshop, there was a Smiths Deluxe A365 that needed a service ready for marketing. I don’t come across too many of these....

It’s a rainy day here at the Seascale workshop so I started delving back into a few old watches we have already looked at in the...

In the workshop today is a little piece of history, a 9ct gold ‘Wilson and Gill’ watch made by Smiths for the celebrated Regents Street...

its been a while since I’ve been in the workshop but good to be back this week. Had this wonderful RG1314 from 1947. What I love in...

A busy day in the workshop today. The first patient is a late 1940s Smiths ICI Sterling Silver presentation watch. Requiring a full...

Today I had the honour of servicing and repairing a Smiths Everest Automatic watch. Aside from requiring the service, the watch was...

It’s a well known face that Smiths never actually marketed the exact design of Sir Edmund Hillary’s watch. However, the dial was used by...

Hands have changed over the years on many Smiths model. I would just like to share with you the changes to the hands on a pair of A409...

Having started a thread about the A454 vs A460 debate...after receiving a few further examples and cross referencing...I can now offer a...

So today’s question...when did smiths discontinue using the ‘solid’ cruciform of the very earliest models? Well the earliest example I...

Today’s servicing....we have the fabled Smiths Deluxe A460 ’engineers’ watch. Part of the Everest Range, the term ‘engineers watch’ came...

This is to become my own 6B...a bit of a grail watch and finally found one for a bargain price...all original but with a broken...

A debate that has rumbled on and on. Some say one evolved into the other...one was shockproof and one wasn’t....well here’s my take on...

After a busy week of servicing non-Smiths watches...I turned my attention to this W10 from a customer. The remit was for a full service...