Capsule History
CITIZEN FINE TECH CO., LTD.
- 1963
- Established as Cimeo Precision Co.,Ltd.
Completed the main factory at the same place and started operations. - 1973
- Step motor magnets for wristwatches production started.
- 1975
- Tuning fork type quarts crystal oscillator chips for wristwatches production started.
- 1976
- Mr.Lucian Meroz and Osawa treading Company withdew form Cimeo. Became asubsidary of Citizen watch Co.,LTD. And Citizen's captal share increased to 83.3%.
- 1978
- Ceramic bearing jewels for wristwatches production started.
- 1982
- High-frequency crystal blank production started.
- 1983
- Magnetic head cores for hard disk drives production strated.
- 1985
- Optical low pass filter production strated.
- 1986
- Optical prisms production started.
- 1987
- Connector parts for optical fiber cables production started.
Magnetic heads for floppy disk drives. - 1989
- Cathode parts for viewfinders production started.
- 1991
- Construted the new main factory.
- 1992
- Parts for electron guns parts production started.
- 1993
- Resinous bonded magnets production started.
- 1999
- Acquired ISO-14001 Certificate.
- 2003
- Cimeo Electonic Devices (Suzhou) Co., LTD. founded a subsidiary in China.
- 2005
- Constructed Technical center at Miyota-machi, Kitasaku-gun, Nagano-ken, Japan.
Acquired ISO-9001 Certificate.
Cimeo's corporate name changed to CITIZEN FINE TECH CO.,LTD.
CITIZEN MIYOTA CO., LTD.
- 1959
- Established as Miyota Precision Co., Ltd.
- 1974
- Began production of electronic wristwatches.
- 1976
- Began production of quartz oscillators.
- 1977
- Began production of quartz oscillator wristwatches.
- 1985
- Began production of cathode ray tubes for electronic viewfinders.
- 1986
- Began production of electronic viewfinders.
- 1990
- Established MOST CROWN INDUSTRIES LTD. in Hong Kong.
- 1991
- Renamed to Miyota Co., Ltd.
- 1994
- ISO 9002 certification acquired.
- 1995
- Established Kitamimaki Works.
- 1999
- ISO 14001 certification acquired.
- 2001
- Established MASTER CROWN ELECTRONICS (WUZHOU) LTD.
- 2004
- Established GUANZHOU MOST CROWN ELECTRONICS LTD.
- 2005
- MIYOTA's corporate name changed to CITIZEN MIYOTA CO., LTD.