This week: the 1969 Seiko Quartz Astron. Many of the cheapest watches you can buy are more accurate and reliable than the most expensive ones. That ironic dichotomy is made possible in part by a ...

The Seiko Astron does not suffer from these shortcomings. Named after the world’s first quartz watch, the 1969 Seiko Astron, the updated version adjusts the time and sets itself to all 39 time ...

Learn more When Seiko debuted the original Astron on Christmas Day in 1969, it changed the watch industry forever. As the first commercially available quartz watch, the Astron introduced a new era of ...

What you may not know, however, is the name of the watch that tipped the first domino: the Seiko Quartz Astron. Released on Christmas day in 1969, the Astron boasted the world’s first quartz ...

The first commercial quartz watch, the Seiko Astron. Seiko Seiko turned to Grand Seiko for the inspiration for the case of the Astron. A very similar case had been used for the Grand Seiko ...

The newest Astron references run on Seiko’s 5X83 solar-powered, satellite-linked quartz movement. It is the latest in an ...

Grand Seiko is no stranger to groundbreaking ... the company which in 1969 sparked the quartz crisis when it unveiled the Quartz Astron—a watch so precise that it nearly undid the livelihoods ...

electrically charged quartz crystal vibrating precisely at 8,192Hz. Seiko’s Astron watch was produced in a limited edition of just 100 pieces and sold for 450,000 yen (£2,950) – then about ...

The first salvo of the quartz watch revolution was fired in the last week of the 1960s. On December 25, in Tokyo, Seiko introduced the Astron, the world’s first quartz wristwatch. It was a ...

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