JIW / HISTORICAL REFERENCE PROJECT / 日本の時計資料室RESEARCH DESK BULLETIN · NO. 001 ↗
THE RESEARCH DESK

Evidence before legend.

The guiding question is never just “What watch is this?” It is “What can we actually demonstrate?”

FIELD GUIDE 01

Dating a Seiko

Serial codes, decade ambiguity, catalogs and the perils of a convincing assumption.

Read field guide ↗
FIELD GUIDE 02

Reading casebacks

Different numbers describe different things. Don't confuse the case reference with a movement designation.

Read field guide ↗
EDITORIAL RULES

Our evidence standard

Source hierarchy, photo integrity, explicit uncertainties and permanent correction logs.

Read methodology ↗
FIELD FILE / FOR THE CURIOUS

Two dates, one object.

A curious discrepancy in a provisional archive note leads to an even stranger footnote. It is clearly fictional, but the research lesson is real.

Open the unusual field file ↗
CORRECTIONS & SOURCE MATERIAL

Help improve the record.

Catalog scans, caseback photographs, clear evidence and identified contradictions will matter far more than an unsupported forum assertion.

Draft an evidence report ↗
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