Orient Watch
Orient (オリエント時計株式会社, Oriento Tokei Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese watch manufacturer founded in 1950. Established as an independent company in 1950, it became a functional subsidiary of Epson in 2009 before being fully integrated into the company in 2017.
Native name | オリエント時計株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Oriento Tokei Kabushiki-gaisha |
| Company type | Division |
| Industry | Watch Manufacturing Electronics Manufacturing |
| Founded | July 13, 1950 Hino, Tokyo, Japan |
| Founder | Shogoro Yoshida |
| Headquarters | 29th Floor JR Shinjuku Miraina Tower, 4-1-6 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8801, Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Jiro Miyagawa (President) Masahiro Yoshimura (Director) Takahiro Naito (Director) |
| Products | Wristwatches, Pocketwatches, Clocks, Moving Parts, Electronic Components |
| Services | Electronic Devices Assembly |
| ¥2.2 million (2021) | |
| Total assets | ¥2.1 billion (2021) |
Number of employees | 747 (530 consolidated and 217 Non-consolidated) (2016) |
| Parent | Epson (2001-present) |
| Website | www |
Until it was absorbed into Epson, the Orient Watch Company had primarily marketed mechanical watches (self-winding & hand-winding), but also produced quartz, light-powered (solar) and radio-controlled models. Outside of the main business, the company produced some moving parts and electronic components that were then assembled into Seiko Epson's electronic devices.
Currently, Akita Epson Corporation (formally Akita Orient Precision Instruments Co., Ltd.), a group company of Epson, manufactures all of the Orient movements in-house in Yuzawa, Akita, Japan.