Grand Seiko is renowned for things like technological innovation and finishing – but does that translate to its stablemate, Orient Star? Well that's exactly what I'm looking to find out.

As I've alluded to above, this brand is to Orient what Grand Seiko is to Seiko. To buy a Grand Seiko, though, you'd expect to spend about four or five times as much as this. Orient Star watches ...

By the 1970s the now Orient Watch Company under the brand name of Orient Star was, unlike its fellow Japanese watchmakers such as Seiko and Citizen, concentrating on producing mechanical timepieces ...