After all the problems I had . . .

. . . with that vintage IWC, and am beginning to have with a similar vintage Omega, maybe I should get a quartz GS, if only to appreciate the limits of timing accuracy.

I've long admired GS's reply to the Milgauss and Railmaster; Ken has one, if not mistaken.

VISIT TO SEIKO PART 4: High-End Quartz Watch Movements

By: cazalea : October 19th, 2014-15:46

Thanks for continuing on from Part 3 of this Seiko Visit report . Seiko may build millions of quartz movements a month for its bread and butter watches, but it takes the Grand Seiko movements very seriously, indeed. This production is NOT on an assembly l...

I see that Mrs Cazalea has great taste. No date watch. ;)

By: amanico : October 19th, 2014-23:50

More seriously, thanks for your great work, here, Mike. That is what I call a report! Best, Nicolas

Interesting! I have never been to Shinshu Studio yet!

By: KIH : October 20th, 2014-08:16

Okay, now I see how they make GS in Suwa or Shinshu.... Yes, although not mechanical, it DOES have SEIKO DNA... Thanks for the report! Ken

I'm not certain the quartz crystals...

By: Ronald Held : October 20th, 2014-09:29

are made there at the factory, or where the ICs are programmed. Can you find out?

We talked about the crystals

By: cazalea : October 20th, 2014-09:53

and they had a sample there, but I don't think they are grown there. Apparently they grow to about the size of a house brick, then small slivers are shaved or cut off. Since it seemed that all the Astron stuff is developed and built there, and all the Spr...