In recent years, Tianjin Seagull Watch Group Co spent 100 million yuan in introducing a Swiss machining center and sophisticated facilities including Japanese CNC automatic lathes and projectors, and in constructing a flexible production line.

It has been improving the innovation capability, so that its development capabilities and key technology always keep a leading position in the nation and it has shortened the gap with its counterparts in other countries. It has attained the top technologies of the “three classics”– tourbillon, repeater, and perpetual calendar watches, and is able to mass produce bi-tourbillon, minute repeater, and perpetual calendar watches.

The company is the first watch production 8 foreign patents. Two of its inventions achieved national outstanding patent award and Tianjin’s invention patent gold award.

In recent years, the company has strengthened innovation and developed a group of mechanical watch movements that have reached the international advanced level with the help of its advantages in new technologies, materials, and facilities.

Its coaxial and eccentric tourbillon movements have drawn the attention of its rivals in the world. A series of top mechanical watches that have been launched based on the two movements have thoroughly reshaped its product structure and added to its competitiveness in the upscale watch market in the future.

base where China’s first watch was produced. In 2004, research personnel mastered the core technology of tourbillon watches and produced high-end mechanical watches that show potential energy and flyback calendars, which were praised by foreign experts as “close to similar Switzerland-made products in movement design, production technology and finishing processing”.

In 2005, the company turned losses into gains thanks to its high-end products–tourbillon, repeater, and perpetual calendar watches and 2.5 mm automatic watches.

By October 2015, the company had 795 patents, accounting for more than 50 percent of total domestic watch patents, including 35 inventions, 214 utility models and 538 designs.