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SEIKO World's First

SEIKO World's First

SEIKO has launched many epoch-making products in the world. SEIKO's cutting edge innovations make it possible to create wonderful world's first products.

Seiko Astron 1969
World's first LCD quartz watch
World's first multi function digital watch 1975
Worlds First TV Watch 1982
First watch with sound-recording 1983
First Watch with Computer Functions 1984
First Automatic Power Generating A.G.S Quartz Watch 1988
Scubamaster - First Computerised Divers Watch 1990
Perpetual Calendar Watch 1998
Spring Drive Watch 1999
3-Band Radio Wave Controlled Watch 2005
Spectrum - Watch with Electrophoresis Display Module 2006
Spectrum - Watch with Electrophoresis Display Module 2007
Spectrum - Watch with Electrophoresis Display Module 2008
First EPD watch with an active matrix system 2010
1969
1969
Seiko Astron, world's first quartz watch
 
1973
1973
World's first LCD quartz watch with six-digit digital display
 
1975
1975
World's first multi function digital watch
 
1982
1982
World's first TV watch
 
1983
1983
World's first watch with sound-recording functions
 
1983
1983
World's first analog quartz watch with alarm chronograph
 
1984
1984
World's first watch with computer functions
 
1988
1988
World's first automatic power generating (A.G.S) quartz watch, later known as 'Kinetic' world's first intelligent analog quartz watch controlled by CPU-IC
 
1990
1990
World's first computerised diver's watch "Scubamaster"
 
1991
Perpetual calendar with the world's first "millennium-plus calendar"
 
1998
1998
Perpetual calendar watch driven by world's first ultrasonic micromotor
 
1998
1998
Seiko Thermic, world's first watch driven by body heat
 
1999
1999
World's first "Spring Drive" watch
 
2005
2005
World's first 3-band radio wave controlled watch
 
2006
2006
World's first watch with electrophoresis display module "Spectrum"
 
2007
2007
World's first Spring Drive Chronograph to measure elapsed time in glide motion.
 
2008
2008
World's first watch ever designed specifically for a space walk (Spring Drive Spacewalk).
 
2010
2010
World's first EPD watch with an active matrix system.