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Seiko brand can be attributed to environmentally friendly ones through using new watchmaking technologies which save the energy. One of its recent inventions is a Solar powered Pilot Watch. By creating this timepiece Seiko makes an important move towards a healthier and “greener” life on planet.

First Solar Seiko was released in 1977. Seiko’s new Solar powered Pilot Watch is a useful piece in aviation. Operating on a solar battery, it also contains several important functions for navigation. For example, chronograph function or the rotary slide rule for any flight data conversions. Read more…

In the mid 1980′s Seiko began supplying British Forces with wristwatches. The result of this work has turned into Seiko Military Watch Line for RAF (British Royal Air Force).

Ian Fogden or simply “Foggy”, British Military Seiko expert, reckons that now there exist three issued Seiko brand chronographs for RAF. It may seem strange, but the line is the one and only…yet.

In this article we want you to get acquainted with the Seiko Military Watch Line for RAF. Read more…

In 2007, Seiko became the watch partner of the International 49er Association, having provided the leading sailors with the two Velatura Automatic-Chronograph watches from Seiko Velatura watch collection.

A 49er is a small class of sailing dinghies that used starting off sailing career, at age seven or so. Since their introduction as a selection at the Sydney Summer Olympics in 2000, they’ve been steadily growing in popularity. Read more…

The Credor Spring Drive Sonnerie, the iconic Seiko watch, was presented to the horology world at Baselworld exhibition in 2006. The new model became the successful successor of the Seiko Spring Drive, a timepiece created to offer the pure and natural motion of time.

With the Credor Spring Drive Sonnerie, the Seiko watch-makers wanted to express the time passage not only by the smooth movement of the hands across the watch’s dial but also through the purest sound ever produced by a timepiece. Read more…

Seiko considers its Spring Drive to be the second by importance watch ever developed by the company. The story of the Seiko Spring Drive started back in 1977. Yoshikazu Akahane, a young engineer of Seiko watches in Japan was overwhelmed by the idea to invent a mechanical timepiece that would provide the same level of accuracy as a quartz watch.

During the day the engineer worked upon the development of Seiko quartz watches. Later, by night Akahane tried to create an ‘everlasting watch’, as he called his future invention. Read more…