Seiko

Many years ago, before Grand Seiko became a relatively common occurrence in watch circles, lots of the history was only known to a select few outside of Japan. And bagging one of the original Grand Seiko VFAs - Very Finely Adjusted - mechanical pieces was...  

In the photo, Sunday, the 15th is being displayed.

So, in so far as the date window is concerned, both Japanese and Chinese readers would recognize the displayed date easily and in the same way. (They'd pronounce it differently, though).

The first is the day and you can choose to either have it in English or in kanji (which I chose for the picture). Like usually with Seiko Day Dates the day is in blue font on Saturday and red on Sunday 😊👍🏻

I believe the specially adjusted quartz GS' now have a star at 6 o'clock to show for it.

And several VFAs were launched in the last years, too.

And OMG half a century for a quartz watch - this is not easy to wrap around my head!

Not quite the accuracy of a modern 9F movement but definitely good enough 😊

And they already knew that bqck then

Using quartz to reduce the costs and price point as well as investing into the technology in such a way to make the most accurate timepieces, too, including growing their own crystals for calibers such as the 9F 😊👍🏻

The VFA, albeit mechanical, was the tipping point for vintage Seiko at auction. I may be wrong but I think Phillips may have been the first of the big three to catalogue a vintage Grand Seiko. It was (is) pretty cool. Yours is a cool reference also, the c... 

A bit of a fun piece of the Seiko history, this one 😊👍🏻

I do remember last time it took a while to find a watch AD with the correct one, though 😊🤷🏻‍♂️

Might just take you up on it 😊

Love the piece aesthetically. Didn't know they had vfa for quartz. They recently released reissues of some vfa. I saw a mint original at the GS Boutique when they were having an event. Thanks for the post!

Of mechanical watch making. With superb finishing for the cases, too 👌🏻👍🏻