60 years of Seikos diving for time

TIME TICKS forward for Seiko's diver's watches as the company releases its 60th anniversary diver's watch, a tribute to several pieces that they have developed since they made their first one in 1965.

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Timeplus Corp., which brings Seiko to the Philippines, showed off the first in a series of three new watches for the anniversary in an event at the SM Mega Fashion Hall on May 16. The new watch, the Seiko Prospex 1965 Heritage Diver's Watch 60th Anniversary Limited Edition, has a pattern of waves on its silver dial. The watch is now available in the Philippines, and two more sibling timepieces are expected to arrive in either June or early July, according to Karl Dy, president and chief executive officer of Timeplus Corp., in an interview with Business World.

The watch has an automatic driving system with a frequency of 21,600 vibrations per hour (that’s six beats per second), with a power reserve of 72 hours. Powered by the 6R55 caliber, it’s encased in stainless steel with a super-hard coating, with a matching bracelet of the same material. It has a curved sapphire crystal with an anti-reflective coating on the inner surface, and Lumibrite on the hands and indexes. A limited edition, there are only 6,000 pieces in the world.