Named after the world’s first quartz watch, the 1969 Seiko Astron, the updated version adjusts the time and sets itself to all 39 time zones. Seiko Astron (Photo: Seiko) Each day, the Astron ...

Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the 1969 Seiko Quartz Astron ...

Walmart is selling a $250 Seiko chronograph watch for $169 that gives a high-end feel for a fraction of the price originally ...

Quick Take: Fifty years after the first Astron took the world by storm (and marked the start of the quartz ... sport watch that covers a lot of ground without being oversized. The busy but balanced ...

the Astron boasted the world’s first quartz movement and was 100 times more accurate than any other watch on earth. It also marked the moment when Seiko officially hit the big time. Seiko has ...

At a time when the daily accuracy rate for mechanical watches was 20 seconds ... Soon after the launch of the Quartz Astron, Seiko opened most of its patents to the world, a move that brought ...

A gold watch is a classic choice for a retirement gift, but you shouldn’t have to wait until your mid-60s to rock a golden timepiece. Seiko makes a great one that’s currently on sale at Amazon for ...

Is the finest quartz watch in the world that much better ... crystals can deteriorate over time and we don’t want that,” I was told. Simultaneously, Seiko Epson manufactures the integrated ...

A quartz movement gets its power from a battery, while an automatic mechanical movement coverts energy from the motion of the wearer's wrist. Each time ... Seiko has been producing it 5 Sports ...

Seiko came up with the world's first quartz watch in 1969 and in those days, wristwatches were a necessity – you had to have a wristwatch to tell the time so accuracy was everything. Japan made ...