The model Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk won first prize as the best sports watch at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie in Geneva. Receiving the prestigious award was Seiko Watch Corporation's Communications Director, Shu Yoshino. Already awarded in Geneva in 2006 as the Electronic Watch of the Year, on this occasion Seiko received the sports watch award that has always represented the technological innovation pursued by the brand.
The Spring Drive Spacewalk model was the first watch made to accompany the October 2008 space adventure of Richard Garriott, the sixth private space traveller and first to make a walk outside the International Space Station. The creators of the model spent twelve months in space on a mission with the International Space Station - ISS in order to acquire all the necessary indications for the creation of a watch capable of coping with weightlessness.
Extremely light and easy to read, the Spring Drive Spacewalk features, among other things, a triple regulating device and a mechanical system that is less sensitive to temperature variation. A special lumimbrite treatment was applied to the hands and indices to make the dial at least three times brighter than a normal watch. Along with the other winning models in the other categories, Spring Drive Spacewalk was on public display at the Salon Belles Montres in Paris from 26-28 November.
Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk
Calibre: Spring Drive Chronograph 5R86
Case: High-intensity Titanium
Dial with lumimbrite treatment of hands and hour markers
Diameter 53.0 mm (12-6h) , 48.7 mm (3-9h)
Anti-reflective sapphire crystal
Water resistance: 10 atmospheres
