Watch Fob

Seiko Watch, Over One Hundred Years Of Innovation

The Seiko Corporation began as K. Hattori & Co., Ltd in 1881; it later became Seikosha clock supply factory and finally Seiko Corporation in 1895. The line of work was always about timepieces, initially with wall clocks, and then pocket watches. Pocket watches which were also known as fob watches, due to the short leather strap which allowed them to be secured to the belt of a waistcoat. In 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake centered under Oshima Island destroyed most of Tokyo, and the ensuing fires took away the Seiko factory and headquarters before Seiko men’s watches had even begun.

When Japan seated a new emperor in 1912, Mr. Hattori considered this a good sign, and began to manufacture a new watch, the first ever with a Seiko brand. All Hattori wristwatches manufactured since then has carried the Seiko brand name, while wall clocks continued under the Seikosha name. At this time, the manufactured wristwatches were small by current standards, measuring only slightly more than an inch in diameter.

Much like many modern devices, people can use watches very well without knowing how it works internally. Nevertheless, we commonly use the word movement in reference to watches, even if we do not know exactly what it means. Simply put, the movement refers to all the parts of the watch that move, except for the hands, with which we tell time. Although digital and quartz movements have far less motion than the original watches with years in a mainspring, we still use the term.

The transition from mechanical movement Seiko watch to electronic and quartz movement was filled with drama, and is a fascinating learning point for business in general. Two American companies developed non-mechanical watches in the 1960s, causing a considerable stir for the Swiss watch-making industry. They set about carefully reexamining the possibilities for quartz movements.

There are times in the business world when a maker becomes so powerful they become almost synonymous with the product they make. Swiss watch technology had so outpaced the rest of the world that they became accustomed to their place at the top of the watch-making community. The Swiss were completely dominant. In 1925, the Swiss held an annual watch show called Baselworld to show off the many types of watches manufactured in their country. In 1967, one of the exhibitions presented their first ever quartz movement wristwatch. Because it lacked the traditional mainspring and moving parts, they considered it a novelty and did not protect the technology. This allowed the rest of the world the opportunity to strike.

The world was ready for a new, less expensive accurate wristwatch, and the quartz movement allowed for a much greater variety of watches. Miniaturization allowed for the size of watches to be pretty much whatever the mind could imagine. Watches for Women in particular began to become more and more a piece of jewelry as well as a functional timepiece. Designs even allowed for a single timepiece and a series of casings of different colors and types to make color and style coordination even simpler.

The complexity of the timepiece would continue in pace with the increase in other technology. The days of the comic strip two-way radio watches are approaching. It is no longer uncommon for a watch to include special features. Some come with built in calculators, and others with primitive scheduling programming. Aviator watches not only tell time where you start your day, but keep time for all the time zones on earth, changing with the push of a button.

The watch has come a long way over the last hundred years, from the first ingenious yet primitive mechanical watches to the marvelous variety available today, they have steadily increased in accuracy, decreased in size and expense, and become a fashionable addition to any attire. The manufacturers are always pushing the limit for the next great thing in watches, to the happiness of the public in general. Seiko ladies watches have been in the mix all along, and now have introduced watches around a new technology call electronic ink, which will allow for even greater and more amazing watches designs.

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