Grand Seiko ushers in a new era of Ultra Fine Accuracy with the SLGB003, powered by the revolutionary Spring Drive Caliber 9RB2 Published: Fri 16 May 2025, 5:26 PM Updated: Mon 2 Jun 2025, 6:13 PM By: ...

In 1969, resisting the tide of change that was the quartz movement (the first-ever quartz prototypes were presented to the ...

Grand Seiko first used the Spring Drive in 2004 with its Caliber 9R movement. Now it is marking the 20th anniversary of the movement by introducing two new Spring Drive creations in the company ...

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Today, a new creation with the same distinctive dial and case design powered by a new Spring Drive movement, Caliber 9RA2, joins the celebration of the anniversary of the company’s founding.

The Spring Drive story, however, started in 1977, when a movement designer called Yoshikazu Akahane had an idea of improving the accuracy of a mechanical movement by using quartz, but not in ...

Grand Seiko says the watch’s accuracy is -10/+10 seconds per month, while water resistance is 10 bar (about 100 metres). The Grand Seiko Spring Drive Lake Suwa Before Dawn is priced at £8,700 ...

Seiko’s Spring Drive movement will be dissected at the About Time watch fair, while a rare, bejewelled Masterpiece model will be available to drool over.