Seiko. Is it made in Japan?

[NicholasG]

I was looking on the Seikousa web page and saw something a bit odd. 

The Seiko srpe35 (with just the date)says Made in Japan on the back. 

The Seiko srpe03 (with the day & date) does not say Made in Japan on the back or anywhere. 

[NicholasG]

I also noticed that both watches The Seiko srpe35 and srpe03 sold by Macy’s say “movement Japan”. 
 

[Nucejoe]

Some outdated seiko movements are cased in Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, India...... sounds like your watch is made under seiko license outside Japan.

There also exist variety of fake seikos.

 

 

 

[jdm]

3 hours ago, Nucejoe said:

Some outdated seiko movements are cased in Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, India...... sounds like your watch is made under seiko license outside Japan.

If by "cased" you mean watches carying the Seiko name and sold under their brands, it is not so. The only factory that produces complete Seiko watches at this time, stamped with a country of origin outside of Japan is in Malaysia.

Then Seiko owns factories in Thailand, possibly in China (which also visibly stamped provenience for a limited time) or elsewhere but they only produce parts or components. Seiko has its main distribution hub for movements destined to other makers (SII brands) in Hong Kong, but the claim is that these are actually made in Japan to allow that branding which is important to some buyers.

For interested people the matter is debated to exausthion on enthousiast's and owner forums like WRT and SCWF. 

 

3 hours ago, Nucejoe said:

There also exist variety of fake seikos.

Interestingly, until few years ago it was there were virtually no very difficult no fake Seiko being made, no surprise as the genuine item was relatively low priced. Then with the big growth of interest and talking, especially about divers and so. E SARB models, Seiko started selling more, raised prices considerably and now you can easily find fakes selling for a fifth of the genuine item.