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and dive watches, power reserve watches, chronographs and a variety of automatic
Orient watches including the newly arrived Orient Star watches. We can help you
find an Orient watch to fit any style of dress or lifestyle. Each Orient watch
we sell is brand new and comes with full factory warranty.
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As an authorized Orient watch dealer, we know we can offer you the best deals on
Orient watches. If you find an Orient watch for less elsewhere, let us know and
we will beat it by $12 or 4%, whichever is less (restrictions
apply).
Orient Watch was formally established in July
13th, 1950 in Tokyo. However, the history of Orient Watch really dates back to
1901, when Shogoro Yoshida, the founder of Orient, opened a wholesale watch
store in Ueno, Japan. Orient Watch has always focused on mechanical watches,
primarily automatic watches with its own in-house automatic movements Orient was
once part of the "Big Three" watch companies in Japan along with Citizen and
Seiko. In the 70s, when mechanical watch companies faced hardship from the mass
introduction of inexpensive quartz watches, Citizen and Seiko took the path of
mass producing quartz watches, Orient stuck with what it did best, making
mechanical watches.
Today, Seiko owns a controlling stake in Orient.
Orient, however, continues to make its own mechanical movements. For its quartz
models, it uses Seiko's quartz movements. What sets Orient apart from other
watch companies is really the fact that Orient has always been focusing on
making its mechanical movements better and more reliable. It is unusual today to
find a watch company that makes its own movement selling watches at prices
offered by Orient. Most of the watch companies that do make in-house movements
are big name specialized watch companies such as Patek Philippe whose watches
ranges from tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. To
find a specialized watch company that uses in-house movements selling its
watches at prices that are affordable to most people is truly refreshing.
Orient Watch is not a name that is known to many
in the US besides avid watch enthusiasts because Orient doesn't really market
its products in the US. As a matter of fact, it is often difficult to find
Orient watches in the US. Most of the time, these watches are imported from
elsewhere in the world. It took quite a bit of time and effort, but we were
fortunate enough to be able to locate the official Orient distributor in the US. While there are a few
other sources on the net where you can find limited selections of Orient
watches, we strongly discourage people to buy from those sources because those
companies are not authorized dealers. Their watches are often imported from
another country and it would be difficult to verify the authenticity and quality
of those timepieces not to mention the fact that if you should ever have problem
with those watches, you had better be prepared to send them out of the country
for warranty repair because the US service center would not honor warranty on
those watches. Think about the headache and the expensive shipping charges,
so save yourself the unnecessary aggravation and purchase your Orient watches from
an authorized Orient watch dealer.
