Seiko watch or Casio watches, which is the better quality?

Let me tell you about the brand ranking of Japanese domestic watch market: 1. Seiko 2. Citizen 3. Casio. In particular, there is another brand, Oriental Watch, which originally ranked third and Casio ranked fourth. However, in 200 1 year, Oriental Watch was acquired by Seiko and became its holding subsidiary, and all sales and profits were attributed to Seiko Company. Casio can enter the top three. Seiko is synonymous with watches in Japan. It is the first watch factory in Japan. Seiko is the undisputed first brand in Japanese watch industry in terms of technology, output, sales volume and market share. Give you a brief introduction to the development history of Seiko Timer.

Seiko is a famous Japanese watchmaking company, established in 188 1. Its original name was Hattori Timer, and it was renamed Seiko Timer in 1892. 1924, the first watch officially using Seiko brand came out. 1969, Seiko invented and launched the world's first pointer quartz watch-Seiko ASTRON35SQ. 1995, Seiko House and Japan Oriental Watch Company set up a joint venture factory. Seiko House is also the parent company of Epson, a computer printer manufacturer.

Hattori Kintaro, the founder of Seiko, is a trainee watchmaker. He followed the trend of reform, seized Japan's massive absorption of western science and technology, introduced watchmaking technology, realized his ideal, created his watch kingdom, and won him the reputation of "the king of oriental timepieces". Hattori Kintaro was born in 1860. After graduating from elementary school, I studied watch repair technology in Nijo Castle, Tokyo and Shimonoseki-Hammachi. 1877, he started his first business by opening a Hattori watch repair shop in the residence of Jingqiao Cainiu Town. 188 1 year, Hattori Kintaro, who was only 2 1 year old, officially opened a Hattori timepiece shop in Ginza, which was the predecessor of Seiko Company. At that time, besides repairing watches, he also sold Swiss and American watches imported from Yokohama. Because he insisted on good credit, he won the trust of foreign companies and his career developed smoothly. 1892 in may, Kintaro, a visionary Hattori philosopher, bought a closed factory, founded Seiko Co., Ltd., and hired Ji Chuan He Yan, a watchmaker, as a technician. Starting from imitating and developing a simple wall clock, he successfully launched an American wall clock for sale in July of the same year.

When Seiko was founded, the factory had only 15 employees, and the machines used were all human-driven, which caused a lot of manpower to grind parts. Soon after, in order to improve production efficiency, he moved the factory to a new factory in Liudao, installed five batches of horsepower steam engines to expand production, and the watches and clocks produced by Seiko Co., Ltd. began to be exported to China. 1895, Seiko successfully launched the TIME KEEPER pocket watch made in Japan, and its performance began to grow rapidly. Seiko's watch industry proudly laid a solid position. 1903, 43-year-old Kentaro Kanako was praised as "the king of Japanese watches" by the Japanese press.

Product yearbook:

1969 launched the world's first chronograph Astron.

1973 introduced the world's first digital LCD watch (06LC) with 6-digit LCD display.

1975 introduced the world's first multifunctional chronograph with digital liquid crystal display.

1978 launched the world's first accurate dual-time watch.

1982 introduced the world's first TV watch.

1983 introduced the world's first timely electronic watch with additional recording function.

1984 introduces the world's first computer watch.

1988 introduced the world's first wristwatch (AGS) which generates and stores energy by swinging the wearer's arm, and was later called "KINETIC".

1989 introduced the world's first CPU-IC multifunctional analog timekeeping watch.

1990 launched the world's first computer diving watch "SCUBAMASTER".

199 1 launched the world's first perpetual calendar watch with the function of Millennium plus perpetual calendar.

1998 introduced the world's first perpetual calendar watch driven by ultrasonic micromotor. Introduced the world's first "thermal generator" that relies on human body temperature to generate electricity.

1999 launched the world's first spring-driven movement watch. In 2005, the world's first watch controlled by three radio waves was launched.

In 2006, the world's first electronic ink watch "SPECTRUM" went on the market.

In 2007, the world's first spring-driven chronograph came out. The chronograph hands measure time by scanning smooth motion.

In 2008, the world's first wristwatch designed for free space walking came out.

I'm afraid you didn't expect that our commonly used quartz watch was invented by Seiko? It was not until June1974165438+1October that Casio launched the first CASIOTRON electronic watch (imitation), and it was not until April 1983 that it expanded its factory and quantitatively produced the first shockproof watch G-Shock (DW-5000c- By contrast, you should know whose technical strength is strong, right?