At the end of October 2016, Love Table family website was invited to fly to Japan to visit the famous Japanese watch brand --- SEIKO watch factory. Following the visit to SII, we went nonstop to Yanbian City, Nagano Prefecture, where Seiko EPSON watch factory is located. SEIKO (Seiko) Group watches related business, before the visit of SII and Seiko Epson are the two giants, many people did not expect, known Epson printers actually belong to the Seiko Group. In the middle and late World War II, Seiko House to escape the war, in the mountains Nagano Prefecture established a branch, the main assembly of mechanical movement. Time flies, Seiko Epson business gradually expanded, now mainly printing, visual equipment, wearable devices (watch business in which) and other three business clusters, production of household / commercial printers, computers, projectors, robots, ICs, sensors, And started this --- watch business. Seiko Epson is headquartered in 诹 Fang City, Seiko EPSON watch factory in the vicinity of salt 尻. Here is the essence of Seiko EPSON watch business. There is a fully automatic production line for ordinary quartz movements, a workshop for the Masumi Studio, which combines a high-grade quartz movement with a Spring Drive movement, and a miniature art studio that has been thunderous in recent years, unlike the SII, Seiko EPSON salt 尻 factory also has the appearance of the case dials and other appearance of the production sector (SII produced GS mechanical watch these parts are collaborative plant production), in addition to jewelry inlaid sector. In other words, EPSON factory all watch parts are completely IN HOUSE own property --- I am not an exaggeration, the robot arm of its quartz movement production line is Epson production, who watch factory so cattle? Fully automated production line of ordinary quartz movement can not be photographed, there are about 6,7 parallel production lines, each production line also monitor three workers, mentioned earlier, Robots are their own production, Seiko in the IT To my surprise, Epson does not stamp out the rough parts, but the direct supply of copper tape, which is a lean calculation. Case processing department Seiko Epson own processing case: from the cutting of raw materials, milling machine --- Seiko does not seem to like welding lugs, I saw all the watch case lugs, we visited the subsequent polishing finishing process. Polished Seiko case famous polyhedron lugs Dial & Clock Production Seiko Epson own production dial, their own printing --- I now understand why Seiko low-end table dial text printed so fine, people Epson main business now is the printer / printer, and which small dial with the factory can It is more than what high-tech printed ink, positioning accuracy ah! Various dials Printed template and silicone ball Printing process demo board The time stamp is also self-molded, polished and polished. Needles are also their own production, which is firing the blue steel needle A wide variety of hands "Takumi" (Mastery) Studio when the studio Here assembled GS and expensive use of 9F high-grade quartz movement and Spring Drive 9R movement, Into the workshop, found that each technician at the table are erected a huge air purifier --- but before the door has been changed to clean clothes and purify the indoor dust, where the air cleanliness requirements are unparalleled. Completely different from the Morioka SII stone high-level meter workshop each technician is responsible for a single assembly process, when the artisan watchmaker each individual assembly to complete the entire movement! So everyone is full of a Big box of various movement parts. Movement Motherboard Inductance coil Spring Drive movement of three synchronous modulation speed controller Movement in the assembly Faced plate, loaded needle Shell, install the strap Micro Artist Studio Mini Art Studio Here is Seiko traditional high-level hand-polished watchmaking, as well as the palace of advanced sophisticated functional watches. Although a small number of watchmakers, but since 2006, released a small self-timer, three repeater, EICHI and EICHI two representatives, as well as 2016 on the 8th chain GS Spring Drive watch, the grinding artist Dufour masters! On the 8th chain and Eichi II 8th chain of unique texture dial Small self-timer and three questions table Enamel plate coated time scale Gem hole polished On the 8th chain plywood hair texture brushed Legendary chamfer polished gentian wood? Master assembled on the 8th chain movement Three questions table voice imitation Japanese traditional Mingzhen Campanula! Who recognized him? [to be continued] This article is reprinted from the table family, if you have any questions, please send an email to wbsj@wbiao.cn to contact us.