The Company of Seiko began in the year of 1881 when a jewelry store was opened by a Japanese man named Kintaro Hattori. The store was called “K.Hattori” and it was opened in the city of Tokyo in Japan. Kintaro started producing clocks eleven years after he opened the store and used the name Seikosha. [...]
High quality watches typically cost a large quantity of money, and it is unlikely, unless the watch’s owner is filthy rich and equally careless with his wealth, that an expensive watch will be tossed aside after a few years. The highest quality watches, from Rolexes to Bvlgaris, will likely be treasured for a generation or [...]
The watch as we know it today came into being out of the necessity of portability in the shipping and navigation industry in the early 15th century. The problem they had was that while the latitude could be measured by looking at the stars, the only way to determine longitude was by comparing the midday [...]