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Seiko Direct Drive |
Seiko Kinetic Direct Drive is an embodiment of the Seiko's 'emotional technology'. It adds to the already impressive Seiko Kinetic Range.
Direct Drive is a new function, unique to Kinetic Direct Drive, designed as an "emotional technology" to bring more enjoyment and a deeper emotional bond between the watch and its wearer.
The "Direct Drive" name comes from the fact that winding the crown of the watch directly charges the battery. Further still, you get to actually see how much power you just added to the battery with your winding. A sort of strength indicator is represented in the dynamic charge indicator gauge. The charge indicator gauge offers a few pieces of information based on what the user is doing. In its resting mode, it simply tells the user how much power is left measured by days or hours. The original Kinetic simply had a visual indicator, but nothing precise and it was not always visible. The Kinetic Direct Drive movement can store up to one month of power. So at the top of the indicator it has an "M" for month, which then goes to a "W" for week, then "D" for day, and then down to various numeric indicators for the number of hours left in the charge. This functionality is vastly improved over the original Kinetic movement.
Kinetic Direct Drive shows not only the power held in reserve, but also the level of power generated when the wearer hand-winds the crown. The wearer can see, in real time, the direct transfer of power from his or her winding of the crown to the reserve.
The Direct Drive Indicator hand on the face of the watch indicates the amount of power generated by how much it moves – the more power generated, the more the hand moves. The Direct Drive hand starts moving when the winding starts and if the crown is wound in short strokes or gently, the hand only moves a little, but if the crown is would with sufficient speed, the hand makes a large move across the indicator dial, much like the hand on the tachometer of a car. When the winding is halted the hand also stops to show how much power has been generated to that point. |
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