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CASIO - MTG-S1000, Crowning the G-SHOCK Evolution

CASIO - MTG-S1000, Crowning the G-SHOCK Evolution

Casio’s toughest brand G-SHOCK – one of the few genuinely iconic digital watches – needs no introduction. But 30 years after its launch, the brand understands (...)

Seiko: Prospex & Grand Seiko Models

Seiko: Prospex & Grand Seiko Models

Prospex & Grand Seiko Models

Seiko was founded in 1881 in Tokyo, Japan as a watch and jewellery shop. The brand presented its first watches in 1924. Seiko produces quartz and (...)

SPOTLIGHT - MTG-S1000, Crowning the G-SHOCK Evolution by CASIO

SPOTLIGHT - MTG-S1000, Crowning the G-SHOCK Evolution by CASIO

Casio’s toughest brand G-SHOCK – one of the few genuinely iconic digital watches – needs no introduction. But 30 years after its launch, the brand understands (...)

ORIENT heightened its presence in numerous markets through Electro-mechanical innovation

ORIENT heightened its presence in numerous markets through Electro-mechanical innovation

Mr Jiro Miyagawa, President & CEO of The ORIENT WATCH Company, says that 2013 was a good year for business and that “in an environment where the global (...)

Seiko is the new watch partner of Novak Djokovic

Seiko is the new watch partner of Novak Djokovic

On the eve of the Australian Open in Melbourne, Seiko launches its new partnership with Novak Djokovic. Shinji Hattori, President of Seiko Watch (...)

CASE STUDY - CASIO - My name is G-SHOCK

CASE STUDY - CASIO - My name is G-SHOCK

We are in Hamura, in the “torture chamber” at Casio’s research and development centre, some 60 kilometres east of Tokyo. The watch that has been subjected to (...)

Orient - Proud to be made in Japan

Orient - Proud to be made in Japan

Orient was founded in 1950 and has been manufacturing watches without interruption ever since. The brand produces both quartz and mechanical calibres, but (...)

The G-Shock goes Meccano

The G-Shock goes Meccano

Did you know that the first G-Shock was presented in April 1984? Almost 30 years later tens of millions of these watches have been sold worldwide but the (...)

Citizen Solar

Citizen Solar

Since 2009 Citizen has been producing Eco-Drive concept models to demonstrate its technological expertise and to show off new functions. This year the (...)

Seiko celebrates 100 years of the first Japanese wristwatch

Seiko celebrates 100 years of the first Japanese wristwatch

With a touch of humour, Shinji Hattori, the chairman and CEO of the Japanese watchmaker, says that he thought for a moment that “BaselWorld must have been (...)

Latin America: An interview with Seiko's General Manager Masahiko Masukawa

Latin America: An interview with Seiko’s General Manager Masahiko Masukawa

For the second part of our focus on Latin America, we moved beyond the confines of the Swiss watchmaking industry to talk to Masahiko Masukawa, general (...)

Casio's analogue revolution

Casio’s analogue revolution

Kazuo Kashio, President and CEO of Casio, likes to say, “If it isn’t revolutionary, it’s not a Casio product.” You might think that this is merely a marketing (...)

Grand Seiko Hi-Beat wins a “European Watch of the Year” Award

Grand Seiko Hi-Beat wins a “European Watch of the Year” Award

The 2012 competition attracted over 100 entries. In the category of watches from £2,500 to £8,500 the winner was the Grand Seiko Hi-beat 36000. The judges’ (...)

Seiko presents the Astron GPS Solar watch

Seiko presents the Astron GPS Solar watch

Last week saw the international launch of the new Seiko Astron at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Just as the Harrison chronometers that are housed at the (...)

Sebastian Vettel's Casio-timed Suzuka lap description

Sebastian Vettel’s Casio-timed Suzuka lap description [Video]

Ahead of this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel goes against the Casio stopwatch to give a turn-by-turn description of the (...)

Citizen acquires Manufacture La Joux-Perret

Citizen acquires Manufacture La Joux-Perret

While everyone was obsessively looking towards China, and even the smallest Chinese investment in Swiss timekeeping was scrutinised down to the last (...)

G-Shock Joins Forces with the Royal Air Force

G-Shock Joins Forces with the Royal Air Force

Toughest watch brand; G-Shock premium has joined forces with the Royal Air Force to create the g shock premium gravity defier (...)

Issey Miyake launches “W” watch

Issey Miyake launches “W” watch

The latest model to be launched by Issey Miyake watches has been designed by car designer Satoshi Wada, the man behind Audi’s much-lauded A5 coupé (...)

Casio launches its latest Edifice Red Bull Racing Edition in Monaco

Casio launches its latest Edifice Red Bull Racing Edition in Monaco [Video]

Casio yesterday announced the forthcoming release of the EDIFICE EFR-520RB - the latest in the range of Limited Edition EDIFICE watches built in (...)

ORIENT - Pursuing The Value of Mechanical Watches

ORIENT - Pursuing The Value of Mechanical Watches

ORIENT WATCH CO., LTD is positioning its ORIENT STAR collection at the heart of its expansion strategy, especially in its domestic Japanese (...)