Japanese watches are industry leaders
Japanese
watches are industry leaders
Japan is a country known for
its innovative developments, advanced technologies, and the production of the
highest quality and most reliable technology in the world. All this also
applies to wristwatches, because chronometers from Japanese manufacturers
successfully compete with watch movements from Switzerland - their historic
homeland. Today, most of the watch market in Ukraine is occupied precisely by
Japanese watches, and popularity among consumers is due to the combination of
the highest quality accessories and relatively low prices for them. How did it
all begin, and how did the Japanese watchmakers manage to “capture” the world?
We will tell about it today.
A
brief history excursion
The first Japanese wrist
watches were made back in 1881. They were quite simple and could not boast the
accuracy of the course in contrast to the Swiss mechanisms. The main task of
the Japanese watchmakers was not to copy the existing watches, but to create
their own chronometers, which would be radically different from others and
quickly find their consumers. Yes, at that time, Japanese products were not as
high-quality as Swiss products, but they were just as expensive.
Time passed, and Japanese
manufacturers improved their production year after year: they improved the
characteristics of the mechanisms, worked on the precision of the course,
adapted the design for a certain period of time. Now the Japanese watches have
become a kind of model of reliability, modernity and manufacturability.
According to some indicators, they even surpassed the famous Swiss watches and
became prominent leaders in the market. The key point for the Japanese watch
manufacturers was the discovery of the quartz movement, thanks to which the
technical characteristics of the devices were significantly improved while
reducing their cost. Later, the Japanese managed to create a watch with
automatic winding and an LCD display, which was another coup in the watch industry.
The phrase “Japanese
watches” has long been perceived as a common name and speaks not just about
chronometers from Japanese manufacturers, but about status, high quality, the
embodiment of the most recent developments and a long service life of the mechanism.
Features
of Japanese watches
Many people compare
wristwatches of various Japanese watch brands, but it is not necessary to do
this at all. Each of them is unique and fights for its place under the sun,
giving the produced mechanisms new functions and improving their technical
characteristics. But there are a number of features that combine the
chronometers of different Japanese brands:
Impressive technological
capabilities;
Reliability of mechanisms;
Accuracy;
Multifunctional;
Abundance of styles;
Long service life;
Affordable price.
Modern Japanese watches are
represented by mechanical, quartz and electronic movements. But the most
popular among consumers are chronometers with a minimum set of additional
functions and automatic winding. Accuracy, reliability and nothing superfluous
- these are the characteristics of these models by customers.
Another distinctive feature
of Japanese watches is the modern facet of unshakable classics. What does it
mean? It's very simple: many years ago, Japanese watchmakers headed for the
development of strict and concise forms of accessories for business people.
Modernity makes its own adjustments and new actual models appear on the market,
but in the overwhelming majority, Japanese production produces chronometers in
a restrained classical style.
Famous
Japanese brands
A huge number of Japanese
watch brands are represented on the Ukrainian market, but the most popular
ones, whose names are on everyone’s lips, are:
Casio;
Orient;
Seiko;
Citizen.
The Casio brand is known to
many as the manufacturer of the most accurate calculators in the world. But at
some point, the company began a new branch of development and began to produce
watches. Now under this name chronometers are issued for businessmen, athletes
and young people in the price range from 20 to 2,000 dollars.
Orient company boasts a huge
range of accurate and reliable wrist watches at an affordable price. It is this
manufacturer and won a huge audience of consumers. In addition, each Orient
model is a symbiosis of a complex working mechanism and an original design
solution in design. This is exactly what modern man needs.
Brand Seiko deservedly
closes the top three. This manufacturer is distinguished from others by the
fact that he has never borrowed anything from anyone. Own development and
technology, the original design and at the same time affordable cost - this is
the policy of the company.
Style, reliability and
conciseness - these words can be used to characterize a wristwatch from the
company Citizen. This manufacturer is one of the old-timers of the market and
from the first days of its existence until today, it does not change its
traditions, but it is heading for making wristwatches for business people. A
minimum of bright accents, a maximum of practicality and functionality - all
these are Citizen chronometers.
There are many models of
watches with Japanese movements on the virtual shelves of the Best-Time store,
including Carnival, Naviforce, Focus, Smael, Weide and others. All of them
differ in reliability of indications, accuracy of the course and the long term
of operation. The watch market does not stand still, new brands appear, so that
customers can not overpay for the name of the manufacturer, but acquire at
least quality watches at an even more loyal cost.
If you consider yourself to
be one of the active people, strive to create a bright image and appreciate the
functionality, practicality and reliability most of all in accessories, then
Japanese mechanisms are created just for you. It’s not for nothing that Japan is considered to be a
country of sophisticated aesthetes and highly skilled specialists, because
everything they do is a priori high-quality and long-lasting.