Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the 1969 Seiko Quartz Astron. Many of the ...

Seiko revived its 1980s Astronaut A829 model as the “Rotocall” digital watch The watch’s bi-directional bezel selects between eight functions for ease of use It’s powered by a quartz movement and is ...

Seiko is the only watch brand in the world that can convingly say it has something to offer everyone. And when I say produces, I mean produces, as Seiko is also the world’s most vertically integrated ...

Grand Seiko unveils three new watches in the Heritage and Elegance collections that will be fan favourites, and one that ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Seiko Quartz Astron 35 SQ was the ...

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 ...

Seiko exponentially improves the accuracy of its Spring Drive movement, now measured in seconds per year, rather than month.

Originally published by Joe Thompson on Hodinkee. The first salvo of the quartz watch revolution was fired in the last week of the 1960s. On December 25, in Tokyo, Seiko introduced the Astron, the ...

Grand Seiko’s latest horological reflection on the Japanese environment looks to the skies, becoming the latest option for those in the market for a powder blue dial this year. Part of Grand Seiko’s ...

Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like ”tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...