Skip to content
01335 453 453 Phones Open: 8:30am - 5:30pm
Cart Cart

News

Latest Posts

The Grand Seiko Spring Drive Watch Review

The Grand Seiko Spring Drive is an incredible piece of ingenuity and precision. 

 

The invention of the Spring Drive was realised back in the late seventies with the curiosity of a young Seiko engineer. His vision was for a watch manufacturer to embrace the concept of an ‘everlasting’ watch, which he decided to bravely test. Yoshikazu Akahane, the courageous and intuitive engineer, believed that he could craft a traditional watch, which was powered by a mainspring and ensure that the one-second-a-day accuracy remained intact. 

 

Yoshikazu proved to possess a determined and persistent character over the twenty years in which he produced over 600 prototypes and endured countless set backs. Quietly and confidently his dream was eventually realised after all his and his teams hard work created the successful Spring Drive in 1999! The concept that time progresses silently and continuously inspired the new technological advancement, which embraced these characteristics and promised to tell the time as nature intended. 

 

 

The Seiko Spring Drive allows for the elapsed time to be measured precisely and not to the nearest fraction. Features that the spectacular chronograph includes is the one-second-a-day accuracy, 12 hour elapsed time measurement, vertical clutch and column wheel for precise button operation and a power reserve of 72 hours (even when the chronograph is in use). The technical advancement and precision ensures that the Grand Seiko Spring Drive is noted as one of the world’s great chronographs. The complexity mechanism is assembled by hand, with 416 parts, 50 jewels, 140 oil points and 5 different lubricants; a magnificent piece that represents contemporary watchmaking. 

 

Indulge further in the beauty of the Grand Seiko Spring Drive Watch.

<< Back to magazine

Brands

88 RUE DU RHONE Accurist Accutron Adidas Alexander Shorokhoff Allemano Alpina Alsta Angelus Anonimo Aquadive Archimede Armani Arnold & Son ArtyA AVI-8 Azimuth B.R.M Backes Strauss Ball Watch Company Bamford Baume et Mercier Bedat & Co Bell & Ross Bering Bernard Favre Boldr Breitling Bremont Bruno Sohnle Bulova Carl F. Bucherer Casio Certina Chopard Chronoswiss Citizen Clerc Corum CT Scuderia Cuervo y Sobrinos Cyrus Czapek D1 Milano Damasko Davosa Delma Dent & Co Dent & Co. Dietrich DKNY Doxa DuBois et fils Ebel Eberhard Edox Electricianz Elliot Brown Emporio Armani Enoksen Eterna Faberge Favre-Leuba Fears Fope Fortis Fossil Frédérique Constant G-Shock Garmin Georg Jensen Giuliano Mazzuoli Glycine Gorilla Graham Grand Seiko Gucci Guess Hamilton Harwood Herbelin Hugo Boss HYT Ice Watches Ikepod IWC Schaffhausen Jorg Gray Juicy Couture Junghans King Seiko Laco Longines Louis Erard Louis Moinet Luminox Lytt Labs Marathon March LA.B Watches Maurice Lacroix Meccaniche Veloci MeisterSinger Messika Michael Kors Mondaine Montblanc Movado Muhle Glashutte Nixon Nomos Glashutte Nordgreen Norqain Oris Parmigiani Fleurier Perrelet Polar QLOCKTWO Rado Raidillon Raymond Weil REC Watches Reservoir RJ Watches Rotary Schwarz Etienne Seiko Seiko 5 Sports Seiko Astron Seiko Presage Seiko Prospex Sekonda Seksy SevenFriday Sinn Skagen Snyper Watches Spinnaker Squale Suunto TAG Heuer Technomarine Tissot Tonino Lamborghini Traser H3 Triton TUDOR Tutima TW Steel U-Boat Victorinox Swiss Army Visconti Welder Wenger Wolf Zodiac

 
Loading...
WhatsApp