Men's Stainless Steel Analog Watch SNXS79K

The brand name “Seiko” was first used on watch dials in 1924 and is officially used since the founding of the Daini Seikosha Co. in 1937. In 1959 Seiko founded the company Daiwa Kogyo Ltd., which was later renamed to Suwa Seikosha Co. These two companies, Daini Seikosha and Suwa Seikosha, continued to produce Seiko-branded watches in an internally-competitive basis. Eventually, Daini became Seiko Instruments, Inc. (SII) and Suwa became Seiko Epson Corporation.

The company launched the Grand Seiko brand in 1960, with Suwa in charge of production since it specialized in men's watches. Grand Seiko would become a halo brand specializing with understated, elegant, and precise watches, including a “Hi Beat” 36,000 A/h chronometer, Spring Drive, and high-accuracy quartz.

Seiko introduced in 1955 its first automatic wristwatch to the market and began already in 1958 with the development of quartz watches. In 1962 the first quartz clocks were sold, and in 1963 in collaboration with Timex and Elgin a portable quartz chronometer (Seiko 951) was produced . In 1968 Seiko brought a electro mechanical wristwatch to market, and in 1969 came the first commercially available quartz watch with the Calibre 35 (Calibre 3500). From 1972 quartz wristwatches were produced in high volumes.