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, ...

In 1993, Grand Seiko debuted it’s Caliber 9F, arguably one of the greatest quartz movements ever made, retaining all of the technical goodies that make quartz movements accurate while adding high-end ...

To commemorate the 140th anniversary of Seiko's founding, Seiko Watch Corporation will release a sporty quartz GMT model on June 10th. The dial embodies Grand Seiko's strong determination to take on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ask people in the know on watches and almost all will agree that one measure of a quality timepiece is almost always whether it has an automatic movement rather than quartz. A quartz movement gets its ...

Grand Seiko introduces a new Spring Drive U.F.A. creation in Ever-Brilliant Steel, capturing the ethereal beauty of a frost-covered dawn over the Shinshu forests. Powered by the ultra-precise Caliber ...

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 ...