Orient (オリエント時計株式会社, Oriento Tokei Kabushiki-gaisha)is a Japanese watch manufacturer founded in 1950. Established as an independent company in 1950, it became a functional subsidiary of Epsonin 2009 before being fully integrated into the company in 2017.
Until it was took over by Epson, the Orient Watch Company had primarily marketed automatic and hand-winding watches,but also produced quartz, light-powered and radio-controlled models. Outside of the main business, the company produced some moving parts and electronic componentsthat were then assembled into Seiko Epson's electronicdevices.
Currently, Akita Epson Corporation (formally Akita Orient Precision Instruments Co., Ltd.), a group company of Epson, manufactures all of the Orient movements in-house in Yuzawa, Akita, Japan.
