SEIKO Sportura Women’s Chronograph Gold-Tone

SEIKO WATCHES

Web site: https://www.seikowatches.com
Price range: from $100 to $21,000

Seiko is one of the most respected and recognizable watch brands in the world. The company (initially named Seikosha) was founded in 1881, and the brand name “Seiko” (Japanese: precision) was first used in 1924.

The company is known for a number of watchmaking innovations like: world’s first quartz watch, world’s first LCD quartz watch with six-digit display, world’s first automatic power generating (A.G.S) quartz watch, world’s first watch driven by body heat, and most recently, world’s first watch ever designed specifically for a space walk (Spring Drive Spacewalk).

A fun fact: the first quartz wristwatch of the world, the Seiko Quartz Astron, which was presented at Christmas 1969, was at that time as expensive as a a middle-class car, and only 100 copies were produced.

In 1968 Seiko reaches the highest score ever attained at the Geneva Observatory Competition and receives the award “best mechanical wristwatch chronometer”.

Today Seiko produces hundreds of models, their price range varying from affordable $100 (or less) quartz watches to over $20,000 for certain models of their top collection – Grand Seiko.