Recommendations for vintage Seiko service?

[matt.wu]

Buddy has a Seiko 6139-6012 that he wants serviced (and a date wheel swap, which he has already purchased). Nothing major wrong with it, just a basic tune-up and date wheel swap. He brought it into Grand Central Watch Station in NY and got a pretty pricey quote ($1600).

I can't imagine that's the going rate for basic service for vintage Seiko. Anyone have any go-to guys these days for vintage Seiko service?

[hoppyjr]

Reach out to Ben, he just has a great experience with a guy.

[Captdave]

Reach out to Ben, he just has a great experience with a guy.

Isn’t that fairly common


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[hoppyjr]

Reach out to Ben, he just has a great experience with a guy.

Isn’t that fairly common


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I meant he had a great service experience with a Seiko guy, but I guess both interpretations are correct.

[BBK357]

Reach out to Ben, he just has a great experience with a guy.

Isn’t that fairly common


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So true!

[bshappy]

I'd highly recommend Danial Blair of the Blair Watch Project. He did a great job on my 6105. He documents each service on youtube which is pretty cool to see. You can watch mine here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfkoODk ... tchProject

[matt.wu]

I'd highly recommend Danial Blair of the Blair Watch Project. He did a great job on my 6105. He documents each service on youtube which is pretty cool to see. You can watch mine here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfkoODk ... tchProject

Sweet! Thx dude.

[Bob1035]

I'm not sure Blair is currently accepting new work, at least that's the response I got from him about 5 months ago, but maybe that has changed.

I had a great experience with Jack at International Watch Works

And like mentioned previously, BBK had a good experience discussed here

[BBK357]

I already sent Wu the info but in case anyone is looking this is my guys info and prices:

Contact Info:
John C. Sachs
Email - sachsvintagewatch@comcast.net
Cell - 571-437-1781
Located in Northern VA

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[Bob1035]

FWIW, Blair posted a yt video talking about putting the service work on hold, and this is on his website now "Please note that we are not taking new service requests at this time"

[slowbro]

Don't know if it's changed recently, but I actually had good luck a couple years ago sending a vintage Seiko 5 to ... Seiko. It was my grandfather's, and unlike some local watchmakers, they didn't laugh when I asked to have it serviced. It might have been a movement swap, unsure, but I was impressed that they had parts and would still work on a cheap watch from ~1967. The movement service price was the same as for an SKX009 I sent to them as a test.

[slowbro]

Big caveat: the 6119 they did for me is a lot simpler than the 6139 you mentioned.