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    60 YEARS SINCE GRAND SEIKO PUT JAPANESE WATCHMAKING ON THE MAP

    May 01, 2020 4 minutes

    There is no doubt that 1960 was a big year at the start of an even bigger decade, characterised by intermingling swirls of free love, the civil rights movement and military misadventures. The first year of the Sixties saw a young John F Kennedy elected US President, an even younger Che Guevara posing for a picture in a rather fetching beret and wearing a Rolex, and a teenage Chubby Checker doing the Twist for the very first time. The decade that changed the world also began with a shift in the perception of what it means to make a luxury watch. In 1960, the first Grand Seiko was born.

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