Node

The Node was introduced by Credor in the late 2000s as an umbrella collection, conceived to bring together under one name a very wide range of watches: from the simplest time-only models to some of the most ambitious complications ever made by the Seiko group. The name, which in astronomy denotes the point where two orbits intersect, was chosen to evoke the meeting of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary technical innovation, the declared thread running through the entire line.

One of the line's cornerstones is the pairing of watches made by master artisans Mamoru Sakurada and Kiyoshi Terui: an ultra-thin mechanical caliber from the series 68, often just 1.98 mm thick, hand-assembled by Sakurada, paired with a dial entirely hand-engraved by Terui. It is an emblematic example of how Credor, within the Node, brings together the pursuit of mechanical thinness with hand engraving artistry, two distinct artisan skills united in a single watch.

Alongside these more contained models, the Node has over the years also hosted the most extreme complications ever produced by Credor: in 2006 the first Japanese sonnerie (chiming alarm) debuted, and in 2011 came the Node Spring Drive Minute Repeater (reference GBLS998), the first minute repeater ever made by the Seiko group. The mechanism, based on the manual Spring Drive caliber 7R11, uses gongs made of Myochin steel, a material traditionally used for Japanese wind chimes, and a decimal repeating system — chiming hours, tens of minutes and minutes in distinct tones — specifically designed to set itself apart from the sound of classic European minute repeaters. Produced at a rate of just three pieces a year, it remains one of the rarest and most expensive watches ever made in Japan.