Description
ORIENT quartz watch
JAPANESE MOVEMENT
“Orient” takes its name from the Latin word oriri– “to rise” or “to be born” – the same root behind “Orient” as a direction: the east, where the sun rises. The company’s roots go back to 1901, when watchmaker Shogoro Yoshida opened a watch shop in Ueno, Tokyo, initially importing pocket watches before starting his own watch-case production in 1913. After his clock-making venture Toyo Tokei Manufacturing (founded 1920) was shut down during wartime, Yoshida’s watchmaking business was reborn in 1950 as the Tama Keiki Company, renamed Orient Watch Company, Limited in 1951. So the brand name ties directly to the idea of a new dawn – a fitting name for a watchmaker rebuilding itself from the ground up in postwar Japan.
About the Orient Capital Line
The Orient Capital is Orient’s take on the pared-back everyday dress watch — a slim, round-cased quartz three-hander built around legibility and value rather than complication. Where Orient’s reputation rests on its in-house automatics, the Capital lives on the quartz side of the catalog: a simple analog quartz movement driving centre hands and a day-date at 3 o’clock, wrapped in a thin polished steel case under a mineral crystal.
Its appeal is exactly its restraint. A glossy black dial, applied silver baton markers, a railroad minute track and a discreet “Water Resist” line give it a clean, almost mid-century dress-watch look, while the quartz movement keeps it accurate and maintenance-free. It was sold worldwide as an accessible, no-nonsense dresser and has since been discontinued, so clean examples now turn up only on the used market.
It is not a collector’s grail and doesn’t pretend to be — it’s an honest, well-proportioned everyday dress watch from a respected Japanese name.
About This Watch
This is the Orient Capital, reference UG1R002B — the black-dial version of the line. The 40.5 mm stainless steel case is slim (about 7.9 mm thick) and highly polished, with short down-turned lugs that keep it wearing like a proper dress watch. The glossy black dial carries applied silver baton markers, a railroad-style minute track, faceted silver hands and a framed day-date window at 3 o’clock. The day wheel is bilingual English/German: the photos show SAT and SAM (Samstag) for Saturday, and FRE (Freitag) for Friday. “ORIENT” sits below 12 and “Water Resist” above 6, with the small “JAPAN TH UG1R-000” printer’s line at the foot of the dial.
Inside is Orient’s HS911 analog quartz movement — a Japanese Orient caliber driving the hands and the day-date. The solid, snap-on case-back is engraved with the Orient crest, “UG1R-C0 CS”, “WATER RESISTANT”, “ALL STAINLESS STEEL” and “ORIENT WATCH CO., LTD”, with a boxed “CN” code and the mark “V8” below it. Orient does not publish what its boxed two-letter case-back codes mean; the dial itself is printed JAPAN.
The watch comes on a polished steel seven-row bracelet with a folding clasp. The Capital left the factory on a leather strap, so this bracelet is an aftermarket replacement rather than a factory-original Orient bracelet — its clasp is unsigned — but it suits the watch and is included.
Technical Specifications
- Brand: Orient
- Line: Capital (classic dress)
- Reference Number: UG1R002B (case ref. UG1R-C0)
- Movement: Orient caliber HS911 — analog quartz, day-date
- Serial Number: None; the case-back carries the mark “V8” only
- Production Date: Contemporary production (reference now discontinued)
- Case Material: Stainless steel
- Case Diameter: 40.5 mm excl. crown (approx. 7.9 mm thick)
- Dial: Glossy black with applied silver baton markers and day-date at 3 o’clock
- Day Wheel: Bilingual English / German (SAT – SAM, FRE)
- Crystal: Mineral
- Case-back: Solid stainless steel, snap-on; engraved “ORIENT / UG1R-C0 CS / WATER RESISTANT / ALL STAINLESS STEEL”
- Country of Manufacture: Japan — dial printed JAPAN, Orient HS911 movement; case-back also carries a boxed “CN” code of unpublished meaning
Condition Report
The black dial is clean and glossy, with crisp printing and bright applied markers and hands — no blemishes of note. The polished steel case shows only light handling marks and faint hairlines from gentle prior wear, with no dents or dings, and the mineral crystal is clear. The steel bracelet is an aftermarket replacement with an unsigned clasp and shows normal light wear; note that stock bracelets are often shortened by previous owners, so check the sizing shown in the photos. The day-date advances correctly and, freshly serviced, the watch keeps good time.
Rated 30 m water-resistant when new, but it has not been pressure-tested and its seals should be treated as non-water-resistant — please keep it away from water.
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time. Comes complete with vintage steel bracelet*. (*)Note: Stock bracelets are often shortened by previous owners and may not fit you(see bracelet size in the product images). We match the strap to this watch’s lug width, so there is nothing for you to measure — just pick a padded leather strap for Orient from the options at the top of the page.
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Why Collectors Want This Watch Today
The appeal here is simple, honest value: a slim, classically styled dress watch from a respected Japanese maker, now discontinued, that looks and feels well above its price. The black dial with applied silver markers reads as a proper mid-century-inspired dresser, the quartz movement means grab-and-go accuracy with no winding or upkeep, and the thin case slips under a cuff the way a dress watch should. It suits a first “grown-up” watch, a low-worry daily wearer, or a travel piece.
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Orient lug-width matched leather straps — 18 / 19 / 20 mm
About the watch factory
Orient Watch Company, Ltd. (オリエント時計株式会社) is a Japanese watchmaker founded in 1950, tracing its roots to a Tokyo watch shop opened in 1901 by Shogoro Yoshida. Orient built its reputation on in-house automatic movements sold at accessible prices, and it kept making them right through the quartz era, when much of the industry moved away from mechanical watches. Since 2009 Orient has operated as a subsidiary of Seiko Epson, a separate listed company from Seiko Group Corporation though both descend from the Hattori/Seikosha lineage, with its watch business fully folded into Epson in 2017. Movements are produced in-house by Epson’s Akita facility in Yuzawa, Akita Prefecture, the same roots as Orient’s historic manufacturing base. Today Orient’s catalog splits into two tiers: the mainline Orient collection (value-driven automatics and quartz pieces, including the cult-favorite Bambino dress watch) and Orient Star, the brand’s higher-end line with in-house movements, hand-finished dials, and occasional skeletonized or complicated pieces aimed at serious collectors. Across both tiers, Orient has built its reputation on delivering genuine mechanical horology, export-quality automatic movements with real jeweling and finishing, at price points well below what Swiss competitors charge for comparable engineering.
