It comes from April 1972 and is one of the rare Seiko milestones also very recognizable due to its shape of case that is like an old TV screen. It is also signed with 5 Series logo. Offered in NEAR MINT condition, keeping also very good time! 

SEIKO HISTORY

Kintaro Hattori founded a trading company for Swiss watches in Tokyo. In 1892 he founded the company Seikosha Co., where initially only wall clocks were produced, before from 1895 also pocket watches and from 1899 watches with alarm function were made. From 1913 there was also a manufacturing of wristwatches.

The brand name "Seiko" (Japanese: precision) 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. Today, the Seiko Watch Corporation belongs to the Seiko Corporation as a subsidiary of the electronics giant Seiko Epson.

Milestones

-The company launched the Grand Seiko brand in 1960, that would become a halo brand specializing with understated, elegant, and precise watches, including a "Hi Beat" 36,000 A/h chronometer.

-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

-In 1975 Seiko introduces the wolrld's first titanium dive watch (waterproof up to 600 m, Calibre 6159).

-At the world's largest jewelery and watch fair, Baselworld, in 1986 the first prototype of the Seiko AGM was presented. It converts the kinetic energy of the arm movement of the wearer into electrical energy to power the quartz movement (kinetic system, also called Autoquartz).

-In 1968 Seiko reaches the highest score ever attained at the Geneva Observatory Competition and receives the award "best mechanical wristwatch chronometer".

-In 2004 Seiko receives the "IEEE Milestone Award" for the development of the first quartz wristwatch of the world, the Seiko Quartz Astron.

Seiko 5 means:

ABOUT THIS SEIKO FOR SELL

The case has the normal hardly visible wearings of the passed years. Back cover free of scratches. The dial and crystal are very clean. The watch keeps very good time and it has last serviced in 2022. The date / day functions are working perfectly.

SPECS

-All Stainless Steel Case

-Measurements: 37mm without pushers (X) 39mm lug to lug and 11mm thickness

-Weight: 125gr (including band)

-Plexi Crystal

-Original Seiko signed solid stainless steel bracelet

-MOVEMENT'S SPECS: Seiko 6119C (Years produced: 1969-1975).