Seiko watches: a technical leader with a mission for perfection

In 1881, Kintaro Hattori opened a clock shop called "Seikosha" in Tokyo's Ginza district. This laid the foundation for modern clock and watchmaking in Japan.

Not long after founding the new business, the company began producing clocks, pocket watches, alarm clocks, table clocks, and musical clocks. But it was the watch that Hattori began working on obsessively, striving for perfection of the Japanese wristwatch from around 1913 on.

In 1924, the first wristwatch was produced and Seikosha became the Seiko Corporation, parent company of Seiko Corporation of America.

Seiko continued to produce innovative and high quality watches, following with the windable wristwatch, quartz clocks, transistorized table clocks, and the world's first quartz chronometers which were used in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The world's first wall clock was also released around the same period in 1968.

Seiko had grown to be the technical leader in watchmaking, and in 1992, Seiko continued to be the technical leader with the production of the kinetic watch - no batteries! This was followed by the Seiko Thermic in 1998 which was the first watch running completely on body heat, and after this came the world's first micromotor in the same year. Continuing to innovate, Seiko released the first kinetic chronograph which was introduced in 2000, a watch that was refined in 2003.

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