Seiko

The story of Seiko began in 1881, when a 21 year old entrepreneur, Kintaro Hattori, opened a shop selling and repairing watches and clocks in central Tokyo. From these humble beginnings, and inspired by Kintaro’s determination to be ‘always one step ahead of the rest’, Seiko built up its expertise in every aspect of watchmaking, culminating in 1969 in the creation of the world’s first quartz watch, a development that changed the way the world told time. Today, led by Kintaro’s great grandson, Shinji Hattori, as President, Seiko is still dedicated to the perfection that the founder always strove to achieve.