Grand Seiko’s special relationship with nature
September 2020
The brilliant blue sky over Mt. Iwate at dawn that greets the watchmakers and technicians of the Grand Seiko Studio Shizukuishi inspires a new limited (…)
Seiko Presage Sharp Edged Series
September 2020
Sharp, angular and refined: a new Presage series features a Japanese Asanoha or hemp leaf pattern, familiar in Japanese culture for its use in design since (…)
Seiko Prospex LX line Limited Edition
August 2020
The LX line was introduced in 2019 from the Prospex collection as the pinnacle of Seiko sports watches. The line’s name, LX, hints at the Latin word for (…)
The Grand Seiko Studio Shizukuishi opens its doors
July 2020
A new chapter in the 60-year history of Grand Seiko opens with the inauguration of an entirely new studio dedicated to the production of Grand Seiko’s (…)
Grand Seiko celebrates its 60th Anniversary
BRAND FOCUS
July 2020
This year, Grand Seiko is celebrating 60 years of existence. Called “kanreki”, this anniversary is especially important in the Japanese culture. To mark the (…)
Citizen: the titan of titanium
COVER STORY
July 2020
Exactly fifty years ago, in the golden age of the Apollo missions, Japanese brand Citizen introduced a new material into watchmaking that had hitherto been (…)
Citizen sets its sights on the moon
SPACE
August 2019
The world’s first commercial lunar exploration program, HAKUTO-R, will be equipped with Citizen’s Super Titanium™ on components used in the lunar lander and (…)
A history of sports timekeeping
1964: A TURNING POINT FOR SEIKO
August 2019
The Olympic Games held in Tokyo in 1964 changed Seiko for ever. That edition, the first ‘technological’ Olympics, brought the Japanese company into the (…)
Seiko: “We want to go beyond functionality”
JAPANESE BRANDS
August 2019
How to convey not only the functional aspect of Seiko’s and Grand Seiko’s collections, but also the Japanese sense of beauty found in these timepieces? An (…)
The secret calendars of Japanese prints
HISTORY
July 2019
To circumvent the state monopoly on calendars, ingenious Japanese craftsmen designed prints that revealed – to initiates only – the alternation of short and (…)
In the world’s largest movement factory
REPORT
July 2019
A quartz calibre is produced every second at the Saku factory operated by Miyota. The Citizen Group’s movement manufacturer equips a plethora of entry-level (…)
Orient: the watch brand of Epson
JAPANESE BRANDS
July 2019
Orient, which specialises in automatic watches, wants to take advantage of Epson’s global infrastructure to make itself better known internationally.
