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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…