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In the mid 1990s, the time was right for a new generation of Grand Seiko mechanical watches. e technology of the company’s watchmaking had advanced, tastes had changed, time had passed and the Grand Seiko team was keen to deliver in its mechanical movements the same advancement and excellence that Caliber F had brought to quartz.team to go further. e movement designers scrapped the original plan in favor of an entirely new design which posed new challenges in every area of the art of tradiS movement was ready for testing. Because of new components, new materials and new production methods, the testing of the new caliber S went well, but was it a success by the standards that

In the mid 1990s, the time was right for a new generation of Grand Seiko mechanical watches. e technology of the company’s watchmaking had advanced, tastes had changed, time had passed and the Grand Seiko team was keen to deliver in its mechanical movements the same advancement and excellence that Caliber F had brought to quartz.team to go further. e movement designers scrapped the original plan in favor of an entirely new design which posed new challenges in every area of the art of tradiS movement was ready for testing. Because of new components, new materials and new production methods, the testing of the new caliber S went well, but was it a success by the standards that the Grand Seiko team set for itself? e team decided to create its own new Grand Seiko Standard at a level higher than the public standard of the day. To meet this standard requires more testing, in more positions for a longer period and at more temperatures. It is a gold standard that every Grand Seiko mechanical watch, to this day, must attain.

Precision is but one aspect of the “ideal” watch. An ideal watch must have a power reserve that is as long as possible. Grand Seiko set its standard at 50 hours, a standard met or exceeded by every caliber S that has been introduced since then.

To achieve higher precision and a longer power reserve required innovations in materials, design, manufacturing techniques and assembly. New alloys were designed, techniques previously used in semiconductor manufacturing were adapted to watchmaking, new facilities were built and no expense was spared. S was, movements in the world and is the base upon which a whole suite of mechanical movements has been built. Caliber S and Caliber S were created in 1998. In 2002, S saw the addition of a GMT hand and Caliber S with a 72-hour power reser ve was created in 2006, followed by S in 2009, S in 2010 and S in 2014.