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 ...

Named after its original quartz ... watches the brand makes thanks to their implementation of GPS technology that enables the watches to remotely sync to an atomic clock and automatically set ...

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 ...

Over in Tokyo, another historical event is taking place: the launch to market of the world ... charged quartz crystal vibrating precisely at 8,192Hz. Seiko’s Astron watch was produced in ...

For a watch launched in 1968, Seiko had to accurately reflect the world time zones as they were. We should congratulate them for even being aware of this domestic aberration, and, of course ...

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 ...

The first salvo of the quartz watch revolution was fired in the last week of the 1960s. On December 25, in Tokyo, Seiko introduced the Astron, the world’s first quartz wristwatch. It was a ...

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 ...