Sony mechanical watch

[Stevelp]

Hi all!  Just thought I would share a project I'm finishing up that I thought was kind of interesting.  Hearing the name Sony I immediately think electronics, the last thing I would have thought of is a mechanical watch like this one.  After a service, new stem (in progress) and a little polywatch on the crystal I think it turned out to be a great looking watch.  Someone got a little ham fisted on the dial between the 5-6 markers and there's a little corrosion on the dial in the same area but that's alright.  Anyone have any info on the history of Sony with Seiko?

[watchweasol]

Hi have alook at wikipedia  for seikosha its got the full history there.   Iused to repair computer printers from seikosha years ago.

[JohnD]

46 minutes ago, Stevelp said:

Hi all!  Just thought I would share a project I'm finishing up that I thought was kind of interesting.  Hearing the name Sony I immediately think electronics, the last thing I would have thought of is a mechanical watch like this one.  After a service, new stem (in progress) and a little polywatch on the crystal I think it turned out to be a great looking watch.  Someone got a little ham fisted on the dial between the 5-6 markers and there's a little corrosion on the dial in the same area but that's alright.  Anyone have any info on the history of Sony with Seiko?

Surely it's just a Seiko, supplied as a corporate piece for Sony?  The same as this 1977 4004 for Motorcraft....

[FLwatchguy73]

The watch is likely to be either an employee service award, an employee performance award or a corporate promotional item. I would be dubious to the possibility of it being branded and marketed for public sale by Sony. Considering Sony's deep connection to electronics, I would think if they were to have released a watch, it would be electronic, quartz or digital. Judging by the age of your movement (late 60's to early 70's), those were in existence, but were not used here.

[Stevelp]

Thanks for the response!  That's kind of what I was thinking at this point as well FLwatchguy73.  Thought I would throw it out there and see if there was all of a sudden a neat connection I wasn't finding.

[khang]

I haven't seen a "Sony" Seiko, but saw Toyota Seiko, JAL (the airlines) Seiko etc. and I agree with FLwatchguy73, they are promotional items.

 

 

Edited October 3, 2020 by khang
Images added.

[khang]

Apologies for the 2nd message, because of the time limit for the edit.

 

I managed to find a similar watch: https://antiwatchman.com/wp/j-4824/

The title has "企業物 - kigyou mono" which roughly means "corporate goods" as in novelty item.

And another one:

http://cticorp.jp/?p=20861

Edited October 3, 2020 by khang

[watchweasol]

A year or two back I was give a TANDEM watch for repair.   TANDEM was an American computer company, This one had two faces and in side were two Miyota 2035 movements again a promotional piece.  The Gentleman who's watch it was worked for TANDEM.

I have also had one from Barbour  of  ( wax jacket fame) again with a miyota 2035 movement. 

[PastorChris]

A friend of mine has a Saab IWC so why not a Sony Seiko!

[VWatchie]

On 2/5/2021 at 12:02 AM, PastorChris said:

A friend of mine has a Saab IWC so why not a Sony Seiko!

That's neat! Being a Swede I can relate to that! And that is one beautiful watch that I'd really like to have (with or w/o the SAAB logo)

[watchweasol]

Agree with VWatchie and their cars were good too remember the Saab 95 built like  tank.