This timepiece is a sleek artifact from September 1978, as confirmed by the serial number 892078. The Lord Quartz line sat directly below the Grand Quartz and King Quartz collections, acting as a premium offering during the peak of the 1970s quartz boom. It houses the high-grade Caliber 7853, a technical soul engineered by the Suwa division to achieve an impressive accuracy rating of ±10 seconds per month a level of precision that helped pave the way for Seiko's legendary Twin Quartz movements.
The architecture is elegantly framed by a gold-plated cushion case that flows beautifully onto a black leather strap. The crisp white dial features minimal gold stick indices, fine baton hands, and a distinct dual-language English/Kanji day-date window at 3 o'clock. It also features the applied single-quartz honeycomb crest above the 6 o'clock marker, which was Seiko's internal badge of honor for their premium electronic instruments. Flipping the watch over reveals a highly practical feature of this era: an integrated, external hatch for effortless battery replacements.
