Their superb factory and workshops, especially the Micro Artisans Studio in Shiojiri, where I visited some years ago, make wonderful products. Including the amazing Credor Eichi which I have featured in these pages before. I am still looking forward to finding an opportunity to photograph their Credor Sonnerie...another absolutely amazing watch from that studio. Shiojiri is also the place where they make the Spring Drive watches - innovative and superbly mesmerising in the way the second hand smoothly traverses the dial, in a totallly silent way. (no tick-tock). But that is the subject of another day's post.
Today I focus on a mechanical wristwatch - automatic in the very traditional way. Made in the Seiko Factory in Morioka, this watch is constructed very beautifully. I have owned this piece for a number of years, and yet, every time I take it out to wear and examine, I feel a small jump, skip in my heart. I can feel that this was a product born out of passion.
Smallish by today's standards, the case measures 39.5mm, and made in stainless steel. The hands are superbly polished to a sheen.
A closer look at the dial reveals the attention to care and detail showered on this watch:
The watch does not feature a display back...but carries this engraved medallion of the Seikosha lion at the back. I think its nicer than having an open back, don't you think?
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