VISIT TO SEIKO PART 4: High-End Quartz Watch Movements
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. ;)
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!
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...
are made there at the factory, or where the ICs are programmed. Can you find out?
We talked about the crystals
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...
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 mista...
I want to say that Ken's is . . .
. . . the more utilitarian SBGX045. I'd forgotten about yours; not unusual, given my recent pattern of losing track of just about everything. Here's an image of yours I took . . . . . . just over six years ago. ...