Join HSNY on Monday, November 2, 2020 for a virtual lecture on Kodō, the beating heart of Grand Seiko, presented by Joseph Kirk, Brand Curator and National Training Manager, Grand Seiko Corporation of America. With special guests Akio Naito, Chairman and CEO of Grand Seiko Corporation of America, and Takuma Kawauchiya, Product Development Department of Seiko Watch Corporation.
Since its birth in 1960, Grand Seiko has been dedicated to perfecting the essentials of watchmaking. With the goal of making the ‘ideal watch’, Grand Seiko strives to attain the ultimate in accuracy, legibility, durability and beauty, and uses its resources and history of mechanical watchmaking to craft the best possible movements they can in quartz, their proprietary Spring Drive technology, and since the launch of the brand, finely adjusted, purely mechanical calibers.
Kodō is Japanese for heartbeat. This lecture will cover Grand Seiko’s philosophy in mechanical watchmaking, the frequencies used and the advances in the mechanisms themselves, such as the newly introduced 9SA5 Hi-Beat 36000 80 hours with Dual Impulse Escapement and the new T0 Constant Force Tourbillon with the world’s first fully integrated constant force tourbillon on the same axis. While Grand Seiko offers various movement types, it is the purely mechanical type that is the beating heart of Grand Seiko.
Zoom Webinar to begin promptly at 7:00pm Eastern Time (US and Canada).
Webinar registration is required.