hired a designer who would come to define the brand’s design language: Taro Tanaka. Over the next three years, Tanaka would develop nine standards of aesthetics for Grand Seiko’s watches called the “Grammar of Design.” Fast forward a few more years to 1967 when the brand launched a watch that would become one of its most significant models, one that fully embodied this design code.
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