Today, the Astron name lives on at Seiko as the brand’s most technologically advanced line of quartz-powered timekeepers, ...

Seiko has just launched a new digital quartz watch based on an archive 1980s model affectionately known by fans as the ‘Rotocall’. Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to try the new Seiko SMGG17 ...

Touted as “the highest-performance quartz watch in the world,” Grand Seiko’s Caliber 9F was critically acclaimed when it was introduced in 1993 and has remained a cult favorite over the past ...

In a small, sunlit room outside the wooded northern hamlet of Morioka, Japan, a dozen or so watchmakers wearing white coats and caps sit in monastic silence at custom-sized Iwayado wooden desks. Each ...

Christmas Day 1969: Richard Nixon is in power; the second manned Moon mission has just returned to Earth; and The Beatles are at number one in the albums chart with Abbey Road. Over in Tokyo, another ...

There are only two watch companies in the world considered to be fully and truly vertically integrated. One is Rolex. The other: Seiko. In case you find yourself tempted to compare Seiko to the Big R, ...

The idea of a fine quartz watch, let alone the finest quartz watch in the world, needs some explaining. First of all, what is a fine quartz watch? The tendency is to think that a quartz watch is a ...