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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, 1950Hino, Tokyo, Japan |
Founder | Shogoro Yoshida |
Headquarters | 29th Floor JR Shinjuku Miraina Tower, 4-1-6 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8801, Japan[1] |
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)[2] | |
Total assets | ¥2.1 billion (2021)[2] |
Number of employees | 747 (530 consolidated and 217 Non-consolidated) (2016)[1] |
Parent | Epson (2001-present) |
Website | www |
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.[3]
Until it was absorbed into Epson, the Orient Watch Company had primarily marketed mechanical watches (self-winding & hand-winding),[4][5] but also produced quartz, light-powered (solar) and radio-controlled models.[6][7][8][9] Outside of the main business, the company produced some moving parts and electronic components that were then assembled into Seiko Epson's electronic devices.[10]
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.[11][12][13]