SEIKO (Grand Seiko)
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Today is about Japan's proud watch maker "SEIKO".
A clock tower on the roof of Ginza's symbol "Ginza Wako". The clock used in that clock tower is also SEIKO.
Here, I will talk a little about the history of SEIKO.
In early 1881, Kintaro Hattori founded a Hattori watch store. Started a business to buy used clocks and repair it from there. About 11 years later, he established a watch factory, Seiko. Listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1949. 1960,Under the philosophy of "making the finest watches to challenge the world," Grand Seiko was released. Four years later, it was adopted in 1964 as an official time of the Tokyo Olympics. Since then, it has been used for many Olympics. In 2007, the company name was changed to Seiko Holdings Co., Ltd.
This time, among the many SEIKO clocksGrand SeikoWrite a blog about.
Grand Seiko is often used as a luxury practical wristwatch, and it is more important to use it for middle -aged and older people than to use it. Grand Seiko celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2020. This year is the milestone year.
When you hear the price at the beginning of the launch of the Grand Seiko, "25,000 yen", that? Is it cheap for SEIKO? As you might think, the value of the money from that time was different, and 25,000 yen at that time was quite expensive. At the time of the starting salary of a senior national public servant in 1960, 12,000 yen, it was an exceptional luxury item in Japanese watches.The value of the money from that time was different, but it was quite expensive.
Looking at the official page of Grand Seiko,Large elements in the mechanism where the clock moves is "power" and "control system".
The three mechanisms that Grand Seiko proud are as follows.
9sMechanical
(See from the Grand Seiko website.)
Mechanical watches, which are composed of 200 to 300 parts, greatly affect the movement accuracy. Therefore, in order to maximize the processing accuracy of parts, MEMS (MEMS), which is the advanced technology, is adopted for the manufacturing of the extermination aircraft.
By knowing the mechanism of mechanical clocks and manual work of craftsmen with excellent skills, adjusting the optimal combination of parts in 1/100mm units, and carefully assembling them, the first 9s mechanical. You start to chop the elaborate times.
9FQUARTZ
・ Instantly switching, date calendar
・ Power source for turning thick and dignified heavy needles like a mechanical clock
・ Improve instruction accuracy that the second hand correctly shows the scale
・ High airtight structure to increase oil retention
The 9F Quartz, which combines the common sense of "thin and light quartz", incorporates a number of newly thought to be unthinkable in conventional quartz, boasts the world's highest performance.
9rspring Drive
Spring Drive is a Seiko -specific operation mechanism that controls accuracy by accurate signals from crystal osco, a quartz -type clock control system, while using the asthma used in mechanical watches.
The spring drive equipped with a hybrid -type engine that incorporates the good parts of the mechanical clock and the quartz watch is also a "mechanical clock that has achieved high accuracy" and "quartz -type clock that does not use batteries or motors". But it can be said.
GS (Grand Sei Collection) Collection
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