Vintage SEIKO AGS Spirit 5M23-7460 Kinetic Watch

✨️Preloved

✨️New battery

✨️Free Seiko box

The story of what is today known as ‘Seiko Kinetic’ is really one of hard work paying off. What started as an idea in the early 1970s and turned to full-scale development by the early 1980s, finally became reality by the late 1980s and is now a fairly well-known creation by Seiko. The company started development of the Seiko A.G.S. movement in 1983. It was a totally unique invention – the movement of the wearer rotates a rotor that turns a gear train, multiplying the speed of the rotations by 100 and creating a current that charges a capacitor and thus powers the circuits keeping accurate time on the analog display. The first prototype was actually displayed publicly at Baselworld in 1986, although it was not ready for commercial release until 2 years later.What’s interesting about the Seiko Kinetic movement is that it was also, to some extent, a move towards more sustainable watch production, as no battery was necessarily – this leading to the Seiko Kinetic receiving Germany’s Blue Angel Mark for sustainable products.In 1997, Seiko changed the name of this collection from ‘Automatic Generation Quartz’ or A.G.S. to Kinetic.