www.worldwatchweb.com - At Baselworld 2005, SEIKO unveiled the world's first ‘Electronic Ink’ watch. It offered an entirely new kind of display which was ultra-thin, high contrast, and which allowed much higher visibility from a much wider angle (almost 180 degrees).

In addition, it required a very low level of power while having a virtually unlimited size of display. This “E-Ink” or EPD (*Electrophoretic Display) watch excited great interest and won a prize at the “Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève” award ceremony in autumn 2006.

Since then, this technology has become much more widely understood and appreciated by consumers, thanks to the increasing popularity of ‘electronic’ books.



Today, SEIKO takes this exciting new technology into a new age, with a new generation watch that has an active matrix display. This new display system retains all the legibility benefits of the original, but allows for a much richer range of imagery and data to be displayed on the watch dial.

80,000 pixels, each capable of four different shades, deliver 300 dpi* of display
SEIKO is the first and only company to be able to harness Active Matrix EPD technology in a watch. Its display is strikingly clear. Each item of information is three times finer than anything
achievable via conventional LCD watch technology and the system allows figures, text and graphics to appear on the dial in a much smoother and infinitely programmable way.

For example, the date can be re-sized or laid out differently, according to the amount of information to be displayed in a fixed area. The 2006 ‘E-Ink’ watch had an EPD display made of a few hundred pre-positioned segments, just in black-and-white, while the new one has 80,000 pixels, each capable of displaying in one of four grey scale shades.

*EPD: Electrophoretic Display

Source: Seiko Watch Corporation
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