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 ...

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Grand Seiko, the luxury brand offshoot of watch giant Seiko, has established a handful of signature traits over the course of its 64-year lifespan. There’s the fine, mirror-like polishing technique ...

Seiko has just launched a new digital quartz watch based on an archive 1980s model affectionately known by fans as 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 ...

Quartz watches were invented by Seiko in 1969 and almost brought about the death of mechanical watches in the Seventies, thanks to their cheap means of manufacture. Quartz movements have a battery and ...

For someone who loves mechanical watches, I must say that I own quite a few quartz watches! They are the usual suspects, from Timex, Casio, Seiko, even an old Sonata and an HMT. The thing is, I have ...