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  2. Seiko - Wikipedia

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    This Grand Seiko has a 25-jewel, manual-winding, 3180 caliber, and its production was limited to 36,000 units. The watch was also the first chronometer-grade watch manufactured in Japan and was based on Seiko's own chronometer standard. [40] [41] Some Grand Seiko timepieces also incorporate the company's Spring Drive movement, a movement that ...

  3. Quartz crisis - Wikipedia

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    Quartz movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969. The quartz crisis (Swiss) or quartz revolution (American, Japan and other countries) was the advancement in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s, that largely replaced mechanical watches around the world. [1] [2] It caused a significant decline of ...

  4. Seikosha - Wikipedia

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    Seiko Quartz Astron 35SQ, the world's first commercial quartz watch developed by Suwa Seikosha. 1881 — Kintarō Hattori opens the watch and jewelry shop "K. Hattori" (Hattori Tokeiten in Japanese; currently named Seiko Holdings Corporation) in the Ginza area of Tokyo, Japan.

  5. Grand Seiko's Grand Plan to Win Over Western Watch Lovers - AOL

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    What’s more, with prices ranging between $2,200 and $53,000 Weintraub says the Grand Seiko also provides terrific value. John Reardon, head of watches at Christie’s, concurs. “It’s all ...

  6. Seiko Group - Wikipedia

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    Seiko Group (セイコー・グループ, Seikō Gurūpu) is a Japanese corporate group consisting of three core companies Seiko Group Corp. (Seiko), Seiko Instruments Inc. (SII) and Seiko Epson Corp (Epson). The three companies are linked by a common thread of timepiece technology. Epson has established its own brand image and rarely uses 'Seiko'.

  7. Kintarō Hattori - Wikipedia

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    Known for. Founder of Seiko. Kintarō Hattori (服部 金太郎, November 21, 1860 – March 1, 1934) was a Japanese businessman and one of the first and most important Japanese watchmakers in history, as well as the founder of Seiko, one of the world's largest manufacturers of watches. [1] He was a permanent council member of the Japanese Red ...

  8. Epson - Wikipedia

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    Epson America headquarters in Los Alamitos, California. Seiko Epson Corporation, commonly known as Epson, [3] is a Japanese multinational electronics company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of printers and information- and imaging-related equipment.

  9. Spring Drive - Wikipedia

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    In 1999, the first production models were made available in Japan as limited edition, manual-wind watches in both the Credor and Seiko brands. The first non-limited model was released in Japan in 2002. The 1st spring drive automatic-wind movement of Grand Seiko was released in September 2004, the reference number is SBGA001.

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