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Number …..110111.SEK1Y0.04 Item: VINTAGE WWII SEIKOSHA MILITARY POCKET WATCH WITH LEATHER STRAP & JAPANESE
MEDAL FOB |
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| Description of item: VINTAGE WWII SEIKOSHA MILITARY POCKET WATCH WITH LEATHER STRAP & JAPANESE
MEDAL FOB SCREW DOWN CASE BACK SIGNED SKS 75485 WITH SEIKOSHA 15J MOVEMENT
CONDITION IS FINE.
Estimated Retail Replacement Value $ 850.00
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Kintaro Hattori
- 881 -- Kintaro Hattori opens the watch and jewelry shop "K.
Hattori" (Hattori Tokaiten in Japanese; currently named Seiko Holdings Corporation)
in the Ginza area of Tokyo, Japan.
- 1892 -- Seikosha is established in Tokyo as the clock
manufacturing arm of K. Hattori.
- 1917 -- K. Hattori becomes a company (K. Hattori & Co., Ltd.).
- 1937 -- The watch production division of Seikosha is split off as
Daini Seikosha Co., Ltd. ( "Daini" = "The Second" Seikosha).
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- 1942 -- Daiwa Kogyo, Ltd. is founded in Suwa, Nagano by Hisao
Yamazaki.
- 1943 -- Daini Seikosha establishes a factory in Suwa for
manufacturing watches with Daiwa Kogyo.
FROM 1874 TO 1917, JAPAN HAD SHED
HER ANCIENT OUT-DATED WAYS AND MOVED WITH UNEXPECTED FORCE INTO THE MODERN WORLD.
JAPAN HAD BECOME A BUILDER OF HER
OWN ARMAMENTS, SHIPS, PLANES AND HAD EVEN IMPROVED UPON THE ADVANCEMENTS OF THE
MODERNIZED WORLD.
IN FACT, AFTER THE 1904-05 ANNIHILATION
OF TWO VAUNTED AND POWERFUL RUSSIAN FLEETS, SHE HAD BECOME A WELCOME TREATY PARTNER OF THE
USA, BRITAIN AND THE WORLD AT LARGE.
BY 1917, DAINI SEIKOSHA WAS
SEEKING WESTERN TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THEIR CAPABILITIES TO PRODUCE MODERN WATCHES.
THEY INVITED SWISS AND AMERICAN WATCH COMPANIES TO JAPAN. THEY DID WHAT THE JAPANESE DO
BEST. UNDER THE BANNER OF POSSIBLE EXPORTS, THESE COMPANIES WOULD, IN FACT, TEACH THE
JAPANESE HOW TO MAKE WATCHES THAT, BY THE 1950'S, WOULD COMPETE TOE TO TOE, WITH THE
ENTIRE GLOBAL WATCH COMMUNITY.
IN 1917, JAPAN HAD AGREEMENTS WITH THE
MOST ADVANCED COMPANIES IN SWITZERLAND AND THE UNITED STATES. THE ABOVE ADD IS EXTREMELY
IMPORTANT TO THIS OFFER AND ITS HISTORY. MANY SEIKOSHA MILITARY WATCHES CONTAINED WALTHAM
MOVEMENTS! IN ADDITION, SWISS TECHNOLOGY AND FINISHING TECHNIQUES CAN BE FOUND IN THE
LIMITED ANTIQUE VINTAGE JAPANESE TIME PIECES AVAILABLE TODAY, SUCH AS THIS SEIKOSHA SEIKO
TIME PIECE WITH SEIKOSHA MOVEMENT THAT HAS ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A SWISS OR AMERICAN
TIME PIECE OF THE DAY.
THUS THIS THE 1917 ADVERTISEMENT
DEMONSTRATES THE GENIUS OF THE JAPANESE MIND. FOR THE JAPANESE WOULD, AND PRODUCE SOME OF
THE MOST AMAZING WATCHES AND WATCH MOVEMENTS. THEY IMPROVED UPON THE TECHNOLOGY OF
THE WEST. AS THE DEFEAT OF RUSSIA PROVED WHEN IT ASTOUNDED THE WORLD.
THE SEIKOSHA WATCH >
SEIKO > NATION + DELIKATA + OTHERS....
I SPEND MOST OF MY "SPARE" TIME SEEKING CANDIDATES FOR
RESTORATION,. I DO NOT COLLECT THEM, I SELL THEM-- SO I CAN DO IT OVER AND OVER. SO, I
COULD NOT BELIEVE MY LUCK WHEN I DISCOVERED THIS ORIGINAL SEIKOSHA SEIKO/NATION
AFTER THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
[1905], WITH JAPAN'S STUNNING VICTORY, JAPAN WAS ON THE MOVE. HER EMPIRE ON THE BUILD
-MOTIVATED BY A GROWING RIGHT WING IMPERIAL MILITARY WING - JAPAN, WITH FULL
SUPPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, RECEIVED THE RIGHT TO
"COLONIZE" KOREA.
IN REALITY, THE US-BRITISH AND FRENCH
GOVERNMENTS SIMPLY HANDED OVER KOREA [1910] --WHICH HAD BEEN A RUSSIAN SEMI-COLONY--AS A
"REWARD" OR THE LATE "SPOILS RRESULTING FROM THE WAR.
IT WAS DURING THIS TIME THAT JAPAN
SOUGHT WESTERN TECHNOLOGY IN A BID TO FURTHER WHAT WAS AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY FROM A
BACKWARDS TECHNOLOGY NATION OF 1875, TO A NATION THAT DESTROYED TWO RUSSIAN FLEETS IN
1905.
THE ONE AND ONLY POWERFUL SEIKOSHA
COMPANY TRAVELED THE GLOBE ABSORBING ALL THE INOVATIONS IN TIME KEEPING AND SOON BECAME
THE MAIN WATCH AND CLOCK DRIVING AND PRODUCING FORCE IN JAPAN.
* Almost every Japanese military timepiece seen to date has
carried the mark of watch manufacturer ‘Seikosha’ or ‘K. Hattori’, the
forerunners of the modern day Seiko Co. Ltd. Ginza Tokyo, Japan.
THIS HATTORI - SEIKOSHA
WWII MILITARY WATCH
THE ONE IN THE CENTER ABOVE
IS LIKE THOSE IN THE
HISTORICAL PICTURES LEADING TO THIS OFFER
IT HAS
24 HOUR MILITARY TIME
THREE PIECE SREW DOWN CASE
HEAVY ORIGINAL 4 MM CRYSTAL
CASE IS CHROME PLATED
AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
SEIKOSHA SIGNED DIAL
WITH
ROMAN NUMERALS IN BLACK
AND
13 THROUGH 24 IN RED
HANDS ARE STANDARD SEIKOSHA
BLACK SPADE HANDS
HERE IS A PICTURE OF THE REVERSE
CHROME PLATED BRASS CASE
WITH JAPANESE HELMET STAR
JAPANESE MEDEL UTILZED AS A FOB
REVERSE OF MEDEL
4MM THICK ORIGINAL CRYSTAL
SCREW DOWN CASE BACK
SIGNED
SKS
75485
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