Magaling ba mga Japanese sa watchmaking? I thought Swiss was the best...

Well you know how far the Japanese can go to acquire that much skill and knowledge in something, like what they did to outdo German automobiles through reverse engineering.

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Magaling ba mga Japanese sa watchmaking? I thought Swiss was the best...

Uh, in peso terms, how much is that NT$ 125,000?

More or less lang ang NT$ atsaka Peso as far I can recall. Mas malakas lang ata nang kaunti ang NT$.

Daini Seikosha Co., Ltd and Suwa Seikosha Co

Seiko brand watches were originally produced by two different Seiko Corp. subsidiaries. One was Daini Seikosha Co, Ltd (Kameido,Koto-ku, Tokyo) and the other was Suwa Seikosha Co (Suwa-shi, Nagano). Two different companies produced one brand in order to improve technology through severe competition and to hedge the risk. Splendid watches were produced at both companies because of this tough competitionand this system proved efficient at hedging the risk.. If either company experienced production problems the other company could compensate by increasing production. Eventually Daini Seikosha Co, Ltd. changed it its company name to Seiko Instruments Inc. and Suwa Seikosha Co, to Seiko Epson Corporation.
Birth of the Grand Seiko

Prior to 1960 most people believed Swiss watches were the highestquality and Japanese watches were inferior. Seiko believed they were capable of producing watches of the same quality as the Swiss. In fact, they had already made two high-quality examples, Crown and Chronos . The Grand Seiko is the result of their beliefs. Who made it? Daini Seikosha and Suwa began discussions under the suggestion of their parent company, Seiko. It was decided that Suwa would produce the first Grand Seiko (GS). Most men's watches were produced at Suwa and most women's watches were made at Daini in those days. The birth of GS was followed by the success of the Tokyo Olympics and Seiko's victory at the astronomical observatory Concours.

Posted by akira on October 06, 2002 at 23:57:09:
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I'm working on a webpage featuring the appearance of watches in movies.

Here is a list of movies I have so far. It is by no means complete, but it's a good start.

If you happen to own one of there movies and a DVD-ROM drive and know how to perform screen captures, I would be grateful if you could do it and e-mail me the scan. This would keep my cost of renting the movies down.

From Jay from NJ:

"Collateral Damage" Arnold (AP RoyalOak OffShore)
"End of Days" Arnold (AP RoyalOak OffShore "End of Days&quot
"The Sixth Day" Arnold (AP XX Chrono)
"Eraser" Arnold (Panerai)
"Driven" Sly (Panerai and Corum Bubble Chrono)
"Driven" Burt Reynolds (Corum Bubble)
"Daylight" Sly (Panerai)
"Cliffhanger" Sly (Breitling)
"Rocky IV" Sly (Rolex and Breitling)
"Rocky III" Shire (Bvlgari)
"Cobra" Sly (Tag 1000)
"The Professional" Sly (Franchi Menotti)
"Assassins" Sly and Banderas (Tag)
"The Kid" Bruce (Franck Muller, Breitling, and Omega Speedy)
"Die Hards" Bruce (Tag and Breitling)
"Mercury Rising" Bruce (Breitling)
"The Negotiator" Samuel (Breitling)
"Any Given Sunday" Pacino (Tag)
"Leaving Las Vegas" Cage (Rolex Daytona)
"Minority Report" Tom (Omega X-33)
"Vanilla Sky" Tom (IWC)
"Enemy of the State" Smith (Omega)
"The X Files" crew (Omega)
"Apollo 13" Hanks and crew (Omega Speedys)
"8 MM" Cage (Oris)
"Get Carter" Sly (Cartier)
"Escflowne" Anime animation (Omega SMP Chrono) I couldn't believe it myself!
"Ruthless People" Devito (Rolex)
"Top Gun" Tom (Porsche Design)
"Rainman" Tom (Rolex)
"The Saint" Kilmer (Bvlgari)
"Mission Impossible 2" Tom (Casio)
"Any Given Sunday" Quaid (Omega SMP)
"Exit Wound" DMX (Panerai)

From Olivier:

Recognize this painting?