Japan’s most iconic watch brand started its journey well over 100 years ago ... quartz and the first analog quartz chronograph. It is a dominant force in movement making. Examples of the much hyped ...

Released on Christmas day in 1969, the Astron boasted the world’s first quartz movement and was 100 times more accurate ... Then, of course, there's the Seiko 5 Sports, a.k.a. the biggest ...

SEIKO, better known for its quartz watches, now also wants to be known for making ... This, along with the launch of four sleek sports models with a black case in its Grand Seiko mechanical watch ...

Mr. President of Grand Seiko and Seiko, Akio Naito, has the most wonderfully approachable and graciously kind smile. If that sounds at all reductive, you clearly haven’t had the honour of being ...

Grand Seiko 9F quartz calibres are also renowned for refinements rarely made to quartz movements, such as an anti-backlash mechanism designed to eliminate any “shudder in the second hand” and ...

On December 25, in Tokyo, Seiko introduced the Astron, the world’s first quartz wristwatch. It was a limited edition of 100 gold-case watches, priced at ¥450,000, equivalent then to the cost of ...