{"id":2119246,"date":"2026-10-28T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/?p=2119246"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:33:25","slug":"one-million-hours-the-watch-that-measures-beyond-a-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2026\/10\/28\/one-million-hours-the-watch-that-measures-beyond-a-career\/","title":{"rendered":"One million hours: the watch that measures beyond a career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Designed for Shohei Ohtani, the Star Time displays up to one hundred and fourteen years thanks to five rotating discs \u2014 a piece that is not for sale, born of a question about the time left to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seiko presents the Star Time, a unique mechanical piece designed for its ambassador Shohei Ohtani. Its genesis can be told in one sentence: a reflection by the baseball player on the time he has left in his career. The result of nearly three years of development, the piece rests on a new mechanism with five rotating discs, capable of displaying up to one million hours \u2014 a little over one hundred and fourteen years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One million hours equals one hundred and fourteen years and ninety-two days \u2014 a display range unrelated to the everyday use of a watch, and with no commercial equivalent: the piece is not intended for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This choice not to sell deserves to be noted. Seiko is not seeking here to demonstrate a feat in order to sell it, but to make of it an object of celebration \u2014 of time, rather than of the product. The piece belongs to a tradition of non-commercial horological demonstrations, in which the House pushes the limits of a mechanism free of the constraints of series production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What remains is the question the object implicitly poses: a watch capable of measuring one hundred and fourteen years is not meant to measure time that one buys, but the time an athlete negotiates with himself \u2014 each turn of a disc a reminder that a career, for its part, cannot be rewound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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