Kinetic energy manual electric energy is a kind of power transmission system, just like mechanical energy and timely energy. In the past 20 years, SEIKO has launched many watch products based on kinetic energy and manual electric energy, each of which makes consumers experience its uniqueness. As early as 1986 in Basel, Switzerland, Seiko launched the first kinetic manual electric energy prototype, temporarily named "AGM", which was the first wristwatch in the world to convert human motion into electric energy at that time.
After taking this first step, after 20 years of development, kinetic manual electric energy has become synonymous with environmental protection, high performance and durability for many users around the world. Since 1988 (with the new name AGS at that time) officially launched the first watch, the cumulative sales of Kinetic manual electric watches have exceeded 8 million (as of 2007).
1998, Seiko introduced Kinetic Auto Relay, which extended the "sleep energy saving" mode of watches to an amazing four years. During these four years, the watch can be activated at any time, thus automatically returning to the current accurate time. 1999, we witnessed the birth of the ultimate dynamic chronograph watch, which is an outstanding work combining precision machinery and spreadsheet technology. In 2003, another dynamic chronograph was introduced. At the 2005 Basel World Expo, the kinetic energy perpetual calendar made its debut, combining the convenience of the kinetic energy perpetual calendar with the perpetual calendar that does not need to be adjusted before 2 100. In 2007, the crystallization of Seiko humanized technology: kinetic energy direct drive (manual electric energy, which can be manually charged) came out. Seiko is passionate about watchmaking technology, and the quartz watches it produces have brought great revolution to the development history of watches. The quartz watch developed by 1969 subverts the traditional watch concept and brings revolutionary changes to the watchmaking industry. The crystal oscillator is installed at the core of this watch to ensure its accuracy. A crystal cut into a fixed shape has a characteristic that when a voltage is applied to it, the crystal will generate stable vibration. For many years, it has been widely known that the standard mode of synchronous crystal oscillator uses the electric energy characteristics of crystal to ensure the accuracy of time and speed. However, there are still many technical problems to be solved in order to fully apply the advantages of timely crystal in precision to watches.
1969, Seiko successfully solved all the problems and introduced its first watch product to the world for the first time. It took 10 years from the research and development plan of Suwa Seiko Co., Ltd. to the appearance of the first watch. In order to make quartz watches practical, Seiko has created a unique technology. For example, adjust the cutting shape of the timely crystal to the style of a tuning fork; By developing IC (integrated circuit) and stepping motor (which can run once per second), we can make better use of the signal from the crystal oscillator and run accurately. In addition, with the passion of changing the future watch manufacturing technology, Seiko did not monopolize its own unique technology on the patent issue, but made it public to the world. Soon after, many technologies provided by Seiko became the worldwide watchmaking standards, and today, these technologies are still contributing to the development of quartz watch manufacturing industry.
The first quartz watch in the world-Seiko Astron.
1969 65438+On February 25th, the first timekeeping watch in the world was Seiko ASTRON, which subverted the history of world timekeeping. The time frequency of this watch is 8 192Hz, which is a quarter of that of a quartz watch. One of the biggest features of this quartz watch is the installation of an open stepping motor, which makes the second hand run second by second, which has become a major feature of the quartz watch.