Grand Seiko Spring Drive: Root of Excellence
Micro Artist Studio, home of the Grand Seiko Spring Drive watches is where the extremely high-end Grand Seiko Spring Drive timepieces are made.
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Grand Seiko SBGD201. Image: Grand Seiko
Grand Seiko has two homes, so to speak. The Shizukuishi Watch Studio in Morioka to the north of Japan serves as one base of operations. This is where mechanical Grand Seiko watches are made. The other location, the Shinshu Watch Studio in Nagano, is dedicated to the production of Spring Drive and quartz powered Grand Seiko watches.
Our article focuses on the latter, as it also houses the Micro Artist Studio where the extremely high-end Grand Seiko Spring Drive timepieces are made. The studio was established in 2000 with the purpose of ?uncovering, examining, and mastering the technologies and skills passed on by our predecessors for the production of luxury watches so that world-class Japanese watches could be created?.
Grand Seiko SBGZ005. Image: Grand Seiko
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Presently, about a dozen highly skilled people work in this studio. In addition to the master watchmakers, movement designers, technicians and craftsmen (three of whom are proud recipients of the Medal with Yellow Ribbon from the Japanese government) combine their expertise to deliver one masterpiece after another, including the Credor Spring Drive So...
The post Grand Seiko Spring Drive: Root of Excellence appeared first on LUXUO.
Grand Seiko SBGD201. Image: Grand Seiko
Grand Seiko has two homes, so to speak. The Shizukuishi Watch Studio in Morioka to the north of Japan serves as one base of operations. This is where mechanical Grand Seiko watches are made. The other location, the Shinshu Watch Studio in Nagano, is dedicated to the production of Spring Drive and quartz powered Grand Seiko watches.
Our article focuses on the latter, as it also houses the Micro Artist Studio where the extremely high-end Grand Seiko Spring Drive timepieces are made. The studio was established in 2000 with the purpose of ?uncovering, examining, and mastering the technologies and skills passed on by our predecessors for the production of luxury watches so that world-class Japanese watches could be created?.
Grand Seiko SBGZ005. Image: Grand Seiko
READ MORE: Seiko President Akio Naito on Making the Sports Watch Work for Grand Seiko
Presently, about a dozen highly skilled people work in this studio. In addition to the master watchmakers, movement designers, technicians and craftsmen (three of whom are proud recipients of the Medal with Yellow Ribbon from the Japanese government) combine their expertise to deliver one masterpiece after another, including the Credor Spring Drive So...
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