This article picks three pre-owned SEIKO pocket watches, and all three listings state that the items are pre-owned. Where the conditions are met FROM JAPAN buys the item on your behalf and ships it to your overseas address (check each item page and the checkout page for actual availability). Seikosha, the predecessor of SEIKO, was founded in 1892 in what is now Sumida, Tokyo, and its production began with wall clocks rather than watches. It released its first pocket watch in 1895, three years after founding, and established a domestic foothold in a market then dominated by imported timepieces. In 1929 came the first pocket watch certified as a railway watch in Japan.