1969, the world's first pointer quartz watch-Seiko Astron [35SQ] was introduced.

TYO: 8050 is a famous Japanese watchmaking company, the largest manufacturer and supplier of watch movements in Japan and South Korea, and the earliest finished watch manufacturer in Japan. Established in 188 1. The original name of the company was Hattori Timekeeping Store, and later it was renamed Seiko House on 1892. 1924 released the first watch officially using Seiko brand.

1995, Seiko House and Japan Oriental Watch Company set up a joint venture factory. Seiko House is also the parent company of Epson, a computer printer manufacturer.

Precision watches are also official timepieces for the following sports events: * 1964, Tokyo Olympic Games, Japan.

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Brand story

Hattori Kintaro, a trainee watchmaker, followed the trend of reform, seized the opportunity of Japanese absorbing a lot of western science and technology, introduced watchmaking technology, realized his ideal, created his own watch kingdom, and won himself the reputation of "the king of oriental timepieces".

1892 in may, Kintaro, a visionary philosopher of Hattori, bought a closed factory, founded Seiko Co., Ltd., and hired Ji Chuan He Yan, a watchmaker, as the chief technician. Starting from imitating and developing a simple wall clock, he successfully launched an American wall clock for sale in July of the same year.

At the beginning of Seiko Society, there were only 15 employees in the factory, and the machines used were all human-driven, which caused a lot of manpower to grind parts. Soon after, in order to improve production efficiency, he moved the factory to a new factory in Liudao, installed a five-horsepower steam engine to expand production, and the watches and clocks produced by Seiko Co., Ltd. began to be exported to China.

1895, Seiko successfully launched the TIME KEEPER pocket watch made in Japan, and its performance began to grow rapidly, which established Seiko's firm position in the watch industry. 1903, 43-year-old Kentaro Kanako was praised as "the king of Japanese watches" by the Japanese press.

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