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 ...

Automotive-inspired design has been shaping the best watches for decades. The chronograph, for example, was specifically designed for car racing. One of our favorites that captures this sleek, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enthusiast-grade automatics, quartz steals and smartwatch heavy hitters are on sale for Black Friday. Here’s what our team ...

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Mr. President of Grand Seiko and Seiko, Akio Naito, has the most wonderfully approachable and graciously kind smile. If that sounds at all reductive, you clearly haven’t had the honour of being smiled ...

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 ...