Seiko Presage Craftsmanship is a sub-line of Seiko's Presage mechanical watch collection, built around dials made by named Japanese artisans using traditional…
Seikosha, Kintaro Hattori's factory, produced the Laurel - a hand-wound wristwatch built around a 12-ligne movement - at a daily rate of only 30 to 50 pieces because of…
The Seikosha plant put the 'Seiko' name on a wristwatch for the first time, 11 years after the (unbranded, by that name) Laurel.
A shock-absorption system protecting a watch's balance-wheel pivot from impact - reliability engineering underpinning every automatic Seiko movement since, including tod…
A bidirectional automatic-winding mechanism using a lever-and-pawl system - the same winding principle still used in Seiko's current 4R and 6R automatic families, the mo…
Seiko's Suwa Seikosha facility launched Grand Seiko, targeting chronometer-grade precision and finishing to rival Swiss watchmaking - a tier that sits above Presage in S…
On December 25, 1969, after roughly a decade of R&D at Suwa Seikosha led by Tsuneya Nakamura, Seiko unveiled the Quartz Astron 35SQ. It cost 450,000 yen and was accurate…
Seiko unified its mechanical watch expertise under the Presage banner internationally, positioned below Grand Seiko as Seiko's accessible mechanical-watchmaking showcase.
Seiko released limited-edition Presage Craftsmanship models referencing the Laurel's design era, marking 110 years since the 1913 wristwatch - distinct from the company'…
145 years since Kintaro Hattori's 1881 founding of K. Hattori & Co. Seiko's broader catalogue (Prospex, Astron, King Seiko, Presage) has carried limited editions through…
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