Founded in Tianjin in 1955, it is a time-honored brand in China, an excellent independent brand in the domestic watch industry, known as the "treasure of Chinese timekeeping", and innovative watchmaking technology is the cornerstone of Seagull's historical heritage
Tianjin Seagull Watch Group Co., Ltd. is the earliest watch production base established in China, and the first watch in New China was born here. "Seagull watch" was once known as "China's No. 1 watch" and "China's timekeeping treasure", and was exported to more than a dozen countries and regions.
As the largest coastal open city in northern China, Tianjin is one of the birthplaces of China's modern industry, leading China's industrial development for decades, and has created many "Chinese firsts": the first trolleybus, the first television, the first telephone, the first camera, the first sewing machine, etc. However, in the process of transitioning from a planned economy to a market economy, Seagull Watches, like some other brands, has also fallen in glory, hesitated and sunk.
Since 2002, Seagull Group has invested more than 100 million yuan, successively introduced the world's advanced equipment such as Swiss machining centers, Japanese CNC automatic cars and projectors, set up new flexible production lines, and improved independent innovation capabilities on the basis of digestion and absorption, so that the company's research and development capabilities and key technologies have always maintained the world's advanced and domestic leading level, and shortened the gap with the world's counterparts.
At present, the annual production capacity of mechanical watch movements of Seagull Group has reached 6 million, and the annual production capacity of finished watches has reached 200,000. The annual output of mechanical watch movements has accounted for 50% of the country's total output. Seagull Group is not satisfied with the development in China, but aims to build an international "Seagull" watch brand. At present, "Seagull" has successfully opened 9 stores in Switzerland, and after the "Seagull Culture and Art Salon" and "Hangzhou Seagull Watch Store" in Tianjin, the "SEA-GULL TOURBILLON" store in Hong Kong has been opened. At the same time, the company is planning to open stores in five developed countries, including Germany.
According to the person in charge of Seagull Group, in order to build Seagull into an "international brand", "Seagull Industrial Park" is under construction in Binhai New Area, and in the future, it will form an international first-class production base with an annual output of 10 million watch movements, 1 million Seagull high-end mechanical watches, and an output value of 4 billion yuan. The industrial park will not only become a first-class watch production base, but also an international watch exhibition center.
