Seiko is a famous Japanese maker of watches, clocks, and electronic devices founded in Tokyo in 1881 by Kintarō Hattori. The brand name means "exquisite," "minute," or "success" in Japanese. Seiko is globally renowned for introducing the world's first commercial quartz wristwatch (the Astron) in 1969 and for pioneering accessible automatic timepieces like the Seiko 5.