Just 1,200 pieces are being made and will drop in July via Seiko boutiques and select retailers, priced £1,350 GBP ($1,875 USD).Įlsewhere in watches, Nixon produces solar-powered watches from recycled ocean plastic. The watch also debuts Seiko’s 3Hz automatic 6R31 movement, a no-date version of 6R35, which offers 70 hours of power reserve, and is packaged in a special presentation box with a message from Hayao Miyazaki.

Seiko has used Roman numerals, Breguet hands and contrast stitched brown leather strap (with hidden Laputa debossing) to place the watch firmly in Miyazaki’s signature turn of the 20th Century, Western European setting.

This is surrounded by the words of the chant later used to unlock the city’s power. On the reverse is a sapphire crystal caseback featuring a reproduction of the photograph of Laputa that stokes protagonist Pazu’s curiosity throughout the film. The new 40.5mm stainless steel watch focuses on the symbology used to locate the floating city of Laputa in the 1986 animated classic with the city’s crest present on both the watch’s enamel dial, produced by Seiko’s veteran enamelist Mitsuru Yokosawa, and its glass crown insert. Its a kind of sad and melancholy character. Its all alone except for a few animals that inhabit the garden. After channeling the daring adventures of Porco Rosso in watch form, Seiko has once again partnered with Hayao Miyazaki‘s legendary animation studio. Its a character from the Hayao Miyazaki film 'Castle in the Sky.' In the story, this robot is the last of its kind, left to tend the gardens of a long dead civilization.

Castle in the sky robots