Corporate information

History

1937年
Daini Seikosha Co., Ltd. (currently Seiko Instruments Inc.) was established as the wristwatch manufacturer for K. Hattori & Co., Ltd.
1939年
Completed head office factory in Kameido, Tokyo.
1964年
Served as Official Timer for the Tokyo Olympics.
1967年
Seiko products captured the highest awards in the Observatoire Cantonal de Neuchâtel competition held in Switzerland.
1968年
Established Precision Engineering Ltd. as the electronic components manufacturing company (currently Seiko Instruments (H.K.) Ltd., selling electronic components.)
1970年
Released the world’s first quartz watch using a CMOS IC.
Established Morioka Seiko Instruments Inc., the watch manufacturing company.
1973年
Established Singapore Time Pte. Ltd. (currently Seiko Instruments Singapore Pte. Ltd.) as the watch manufacturing company. (currently manufacturing Thermal Printers.)
1981年
Established Seiko Instruments U.S.A., Inc. as sales company of diversified products in North America.
1983年
Established Seiko EG&G Co., Ltd. as a joint company between Seiko Instruments Inc. and EG&G Inc. (currently Perkin Elmer Instruments).
Established Seiko Instruments GmbH in Germany as sales company of diversified products in Europe.
Company name was officially changed to Seiko Instruments & Electronics Ltd. 
1984年
Established Seiko Precision Co., Ltd. as the electronic components sales company (currently Seiko Instruments Taiwan Inc.)
1988年
Established Seiko Instruments (Thailand) as the watch components manufacturing company (currently manufacturing HDD components, etc.)
1989年
Established Dalian Seiko Instruments Inc. as the watch components manufacturing company.
1990年
New corporate brand name " organization_ex001-1 " adopted as official acronym of Seiko Instruments Inc.
1993年
SII Head Office was relocated to Makuhari.
1997年
Company name was officially changed to Seiko Instruments Inc.
2001年
Established SII Printek Inc. as the manufacturing and sales company of printhead products.
2004年
Opened Shizukuishi Watch Studio, Japan’s only fully-integrated production system for mechanical wristwatches.
2005年
Established Seiko Instruments (Shanghai) Inc. as the electronic components sales company.
2006年
Established Seiko Instruments Technology (Shanghai) Inc. as the electronic components manufacturing company.
2009年
Became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Seiko Holdings Corporation.(currently Seiko Group Corporation.)
2013年
Established SII Crystal Technology Inc. as the manufacturing company of quartz crystal products.
2016年
Established SII Semiconductor Corporation as the manufacturing and sales company of semiconductor products. In January 2018, the equity method will be applied and the company name will be changed to ABLIC Inc.
2020年

Watch business transferred to Seiko Watch Corporation