Horological Meandering

Dear friends February has started time to meet our next POTM This time we have neighbor of our last month's POTM Art, our Seiko Moderator from San Diego Mike aka Cazalea. Please enjoy Cheers D 1. Please introduce yourself. My name is Michael aka Cazalea. ...  

I love your raw passion Please don’t stop posting - you add so much to this site Julian

I appreciate all the camaraderie. And the friendly guys too! Mike

Your kindness shown to me over the years will always be high up on my list. Sharing your knowledge of Seiko is enviable and your cars too. Rather like that XJR you pictured...😜 Still think about the Blue VDP. To more times of breaking bread and vintage bu... 

I find these monthly posts fascinating to find out more about our PuristS family, so thanks for sharing with us (and Damjan too for taking the time!). I must got over to San Diego again some time, its been a while since I dived in that ocean and of course... 

It was great - of course we need to get to Jersey again too and see all your orange-trimmed watches. (Are you Dutch?) Mike

Fond memories of a fantastic dinner with you guys and our dear friend Tim. We must have a repeat on one side of the ocean! Orange for me is just an energy colour... but my wife is half-dutch if that is an excuse for buying another watch I will take it Che... 

I knew you owned a lot of watches but more than 100 cars in 50 years is something almost incredible for me. I can still remember one of your picture with several of your cars in your driveway. I know I’ll own a Seiko / GS one day (this desire really grows... 

I must admit I have slowed in cars since diving headlong into watches. You remind me - I must update my car spreadsheet sometime. Thanks for your many many contributions here. Mike

Thank you Mike. Best wishes Alkiro

Keep them posts coming!

I suppose it’s not a popular or politically-correct show nowadays with the mask, Native American sidekick, etc. but I liked it as a kid as I spent a lot of time camping out in the desert with Boy Scouts. I remember when growing up, there were sports/athle...  

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You truly are a huge part of this community and your passion is obvious. You are also one of the GS Vlads over here and have influenced a few of my decisions, for which I am thankful. I absolutely must visit you next time I'm in SoCal. A Citroen in the St... 

This is a great series. Thanks so much for sharing Mike, a pleasure and inspiration to read.

Thank you, Damjan for continue this series and thank you, Michael for sharing your world with us! Best Blomman

Mike is a real gentleman and a real testament to the quality of PuristPro and our community of like-minded “idiots” (obviously in the best sense of that word) and Horological tragics. I doff my hat! Cheers from DownUnder

...and despite such diversity in people on PP, POTM exposes the common threads that we can all relate to. After following Cazaleas posts, it's great to know more about what motivates this obsession we all share. Mike, I really respect and appreciate your ... 

Mike, Having known you all these years, there was still one new fact to discover. That you belong to Eastern Orthodox church. Of course, if I was like Poirot, I should have known from your collection of ikons; those I already knew about. Regards, MTF

The icons came first and eventually we were drawn from a Presbyterian church to a more liturgical home. These are two of the two dozen icons I’ve done. Mike ...  

and fantastic to read you, Mike. It is always great when you can see some parts of yourself in another Purist. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. CC

Thank you. M4

... and Seikos, and I enjoyed so much this morning reading your POTM interview and getting to know more about you and your interests and activities before retirement and present. I realy loved the reading and of course the photography which is great as us... 

I would love to meet you. Thanks, D. Another great start to a new month. (The best month.)

You’re the source of GS info and I’m super impressed with your detail oriented posts for watch collecting. Thank you for sharing and hope to meet some day....so close yet so far. Rgds Raymond

You are a great person and a wonderful Purist. Thank you for sharing here your fine taste and pure reasoning. Cheers, Nilo

I love your VH classic(a watch a hope to own one day) i just started with the Seiko brand so i hope i can learn something from your posts 🙏🏻🤗

which has lended even greater depth to an already fascinating character . I was certainly not aware you are of Eastern Orthodox faith and had as many impressive ikons in your collection! Thank you Damjan for the continuation of this invaluable series. Che... 

It’s kind of fun/unusual to just talk about oneself and other aspects that are generally outside our agenda here. Especially when tied to a chair under a bright light and facing a man with the dial turned to 11! Thanks for your interest. Mike ...  

. . . about not letting you have my GS 56, Mike. We've gotta be the only two guys in the Western Hemisphere to own one. Although I was aware of GS early on in my accumulating phase, I'd no experience prior to seeing a few of Khalil Sheikh's, and then your...  

Thank you for sharing and making this place a more community like cyberspace. P.S. i like the fact that you state tge IWC as one of your keepers. IMO a great watch indeed. Cheers Kolosstt

It was a pleasure to meet you in person recently, and learning more here than 1.5 hours would allow is splendid. That's an amazing number in your collection, and I enjoyed the rationale for your purchases and the diversity of hobbies. I'm a big fan of tha...