Seiko Honors its Founder with Astron GPS Kintaro Hattori 160th Anniversary Edition
Seiko founder Kintaro Hattori was born in 1860 in central Tokyo, during a time of massive social change and industrial maturation for Japan. The timepiece repair business he established at the tender age of 17 would grow into Japan’s preeminent watch and clock manufacturer. For the 160th anniversary of Hattori’s birth, Seiko has released a special edition of its groundbreaking Astron GPS Solar watch.
The original Astron from 2012 ? itself an ultra-modern evolution of a 1969 Seiko watch of the same name, which also happened to be the first quartz-powered watch on the market ? was a solar-powered watch that received GPS satellite signals, enabling the wearer to adjust to any local time zone on Earth at the push of a button. This model and others that evolved from that watch boast all of that functionality along with the added convenience of allowing the wearer to also check the time in his home zone. The movement, Seiko?s Caliber 5X53, connects up to twice a day to a GPS network; when the dial detects sunlight, the watch uses the GPS signal to automatically adjust to the correct local time, including during Daylight Savings Times.
In this new special edition honoring Kintaro Hattori, the 42.8-mm case and bracelet are made from titanium with an extra-hard, scratch-resistant black coating. The high-gloss bezel, made from Zirconia ceramic, has sixteen facets ? one for each decade since Hattori’s birth. The sober black tones of the case, bezel, di...
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