Seiko Coutura where innovation meets refinement. Time is perpetual: Now there’s a watch to reflect it. By the simple motion of your wrist, the rechargable battery charges itself. Once totally charged, it captures and stores energy up to six months. Kinetic – the most innovative electronic watch technology. Environmentally friendly. This masculine watch has a brushed steel case with a Black Ion Finish and is staged on an beautiful link bracelet; polished steel bezel is accented with studded detail. The beautiful black dial has Lumi Brite hands and markers with twelve month and twenty-four hour subdials. The calendar is precise to 2100. 100 meters water resistant.
Kinetic: A powerhouse in technical innovation
Like mechanical and quartz, Kinetic is a platform. Over the past 20 years, SEIKO has produced on this platform a suite of Kinetic movements, each bringing distinguishable features to the consumer.
It was at the 1986 Basel Fair that SEIKO unveiled it is basi Kinetic prototype. Introduced underneath the trial name of ‘AGM’, it was the firstborn watch in the world to convert kinetic motion into electrical energy. It was the firstborn step in a development that, 20 years later, has made Kinetic synonymous with environmental friendliness, high performance and long-lasting comfortableness to a generation of users worldwide. From the launch in 1988 of the original commercially available watch (then beneath the new name AGS) until today, over eight million Kinetic watches have been sold (as of 2007).
In 1998, Kinetic Auto Relay was released, extending the ‘at-rest’ operating amount of time of the watch to a noteworthy 4 years. 1999 saw the launch of the Ultimate Kinetic Chronograph, a masterwork which fused the very best of SEIKO’s mechanical and electronic watch making skills, and in 2003 another Kinetic Chronograph was launched. At Baselworld 2005, the Kinetic Perpetual made it is introductory appearance, combining Kinetic comfortableness and longevity with a perpetual calendar, rectify to the year 2100. In 2007, SEIKO’s aroused technology Kinetic Direct Drive is introduced.
The Seiko StoryFrom Humble beginnings, Kintaro Hattori’s Vision for Seiko has become reality. A consuming passion for excellency – imprinted in our Corporate DNA passed from generation to generation. Seiko, for 125 years devoted to the art and science of time.
A culture of innovation connects a 19th century Tokyo clock shop with 20th century advances in timekeeping to an extraordinary 21st century “quiet revolution.” Continually driven by commitment and passion, established a multitude of world’s original technologies… transforming the principles of timekeeping.
The introductory quartz wristwatch – changed the history of time.
The firstborn Kinetic – marked a new era in quartz watch technology.
In 1969, Seiko Astron, the basi quartz wristwatch – was introduced.
In an instant, Seiko exponential bettered the accuracy of wristwatches –And Seiko engineering science with resolute determination conventional today’s popular in Olympic and sports timing.
1984, another celebrated firstborn – Kinetic Technology – powered by body movement.
Kinetic – a quartz mechanism with unparalleled accuracy –the driving strength behind more world’s firsts.
Kinetic Chronograph – the next generation of high performance timekeeping.
Kinetic Auto Relay – mechanically resets to the rectify time.
Kinetic Perpetual – combining the date perfective engineering of perpetual calendar with the talent of Kinetic Auto Relay.
And now Kinetic Direct Drive – move, and the watch is powered automatically. Or hand wind it and see the power you are generating in real time.
In the realm of fine watches, time is measured by Seiko innovation – A inheritance of commitment to the art and science of time.
Nice looking watch, but one severe flaw…