Search results
The Grand Seiko watch was born in 1960, reached the very top in the mechanical watch field around the world at the end of the 1960’s. After a hiatus of dozen years or so, in 1993, the Grand Seiko 9F series equipped with world-class quartz movement was released.
Spring Drive is a unique movement that combines the high torque of a mechanical watch with the high precision integrated circuit (IC) control system of an electronic watch.
The Seiko Spacewalk is a limited edition Spring Drive model, designed specifically for use in space. Spring Drive is a name given to a series of watch movements produced by Epson in Shiojiri.
The history of Spring Drive and technical information of all Grand Seiko watches with Spring Drive movements.
In 1999 Seiko released the “Spring Drive,” the world’s first watch driven by the mainspring power and controlled by quartz at the same time. The development of Seiko’s unique Spring Drive started in 1982 and took about 20 years to reach the stage of commercialization.
13 sty 2023 · Grand Seiko unveiled a new, manually winding Spring Drive movement, Caliber 9R02, in 2019 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first Spring Drive watch. Its notable talking points are its two mainsprings, set in parallel inside a single barrel, which are linked to a newly developed Torque Return System.
To commemorate this anniversary, Grand Seiko created watches carrying two new manual winding Spring Drive movements. These were developed under the leadership of Osamu Takahashi, who led the development team that created the first generation Spring Drive movement over 20 years ago.
