as a subsidiary to supply precision parts for Seiko watches. In 1961, Suwa Seikosha established a company called Shinshu Seiki Co. The watches made by the company are sold through the Seiko Watch Corporation, a subsidiary of Seiko Holdings Corporation. Manufacturing of watches is still the major part of businesses for Seiko Epson today. In particular, it developed the world's first portable quartz timer (Seiko QC-951) in 1963, the world's first quartz watch (Seiko Quartz Astron 35SQ) in 1969, the world's first automatic power generating quartz watch (Seiko Auto-Quartz) in 1988 and the Spring Drive watch movement in 1999. The company has developed many timepiece technologies. In 1959, the Suwa Factory of Daini Seikosha was split up and merged into Daiwa Kogyo to form Suwa Seikosha Co., Ltd: the forerunner of the Seiko Epson Corporation. In 1943, Daini Seikosha established a factory in Suwa for manufacturing Seiko watches with Daiwa Kogyo. The company started operation in a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) renovated miso storehouse with 22 employees. Daiwa Kogyo was supported by an investment from the Hattori family (founder of the Seiko Group) and began as a manufacturer of watch parts for Daini Seikosha (currently Seiko Instruments). that was founded in 1942 by Hisao Yamazaki, a local clock shop owner and former employee of K. The roots of Seiko Epson Corporation started with a company called Daiwa Kogyo, Ltd.
It is one of three core companies of the Seiko Group, a name traditionally known for manufacturing Seiko timepieces since its founding. Headquartered in Suwa, Nagano, Japan, the company has numerous subsidiaries worldwide and manufactures inkjet, dot matrix and laser printers, scanners, desktop computers, business, multimedia and home theatre projectors, large home theatre televisions, robots and industrial automation equipment, point of sale docket printers and cash registers, laptops, integrated circuits, LCD components and other associated electronic components. Seiko Epson Corporation ( セイコーエプソン株式会社, Seikō Epuson Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly known as Epson, is a Japanese electronics company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer printers, information and imaging related equipment.
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