While much of the luxury watchmaking world seems to draw its inspiration from cars, airplanes, mountain climbers, or vintage watches, Grand Seiko has a charming way of claiming nature itself as its ...

Powered by the brand’s Spring Drive movement, the U.F.A. Ushio 300 is also incredibly accurate.

How could a watch that costs $76,000 ever have anything in common with a plug-in hybrid car, many of which are less than half that price? As unlikely as it sounds, there are genuine comparisons to be ...

Quick Take: Four newly released high-end Grand Seiko Elegance watches celebrate 20 years since Seiko’s fascinating Spring Drive movements debuted in 1999. (While Spring Drive technology can be hard ...

You might think of Seiko as an entry level watch brand – and, actually, you’d be right. Grand Seiko, on the other hand, is a whole different ball game. Where the former makes watches which cost as ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Seiko’s Grand Seiko sub-brand devotes itself to making top-quality mechanical watches that for decades were ...