List of Modern Royal Orient Movements

Having often benefited from reference materials provided by others, such as Stephen's list of vintage Orient movements, and Dan's compilation of modern Orient calibers, I felt the need to contribute to the group effort.

And, as I could find no well-organized online source of Royal Orient movements, it made sense to produce such a document. Pre-owned Royal Orients, while fairly hard to come by, represent an interesting proposition to watch collectors – they are mostly a bunch of very well made watches, housing decent movements, some encased in materials like silver and gold, and generally costing way less than comparable Grand Seiko watches (not to mention Swiss brands).

Looking at online listings of pre-owned RO's, they often lack in technical details – possibly not even known to their current owners. So I find that sharing such a list of Royal Orient movements would surely benefit both current owners and collectors looking to buy one.

So, here we go… but first, a few notes.

First of all, many of the movements used in Royal Orient are not the same as those used in regular Orients or even in Orient Star pieces. Being both unique and rare, finding information on these movements proved to be anything but trivial.

Now, I have limited myself to movements used in modern Royal Orients, dating more or less 20 years back. I also tried to make sure all information was cross-referenced between two sources at least, and in some cases more (when contradictions were found). Indeed I did come across misinformed sources. The following data therefore represents my best efforts to maintain accuracy. However, any information pertaining to old Orient movements may be prone to errors, so I would be grateful to any reader who finds an error for sending me correct details.

Below, you have the full information, both as a text table, and as an image. The text tables I had to break in half to keep in the format of the blog pages, but they are important so people using a search engine to find information would get to them easily. The image, provides you with all the data on a particular movement in one continuous row.

For those not familiar with Orient's JDM reference system, the movement code is represented by the last two letters of the model number. For instance, Royal Orient ref. WE0011JD uses the "JD" movement, corresponding to Cal. 40B50.

Code	Year Introduced	Caliber No.	Power Reserve	Accuracy (sec.)	Frequency
DN (1)	1998	7001	42 hr	+10/-5	21,600
FC	2000	46M	40 hr	+10/-5	21,600
FB (2)	2003	46L	40 hr	+10/-5	21,600
FL	2004	46T50	40 hr	+10/-5	21,600
FQ	2004	48B56	50 hr	+10/-5	21,600
JA	2004	88700	45 hr	+6/-4	28,800
NA	2007	50A40	40 hr	+25/-15	21,600
FS	2007	40Z60	40 hr	+10/-5	21,600
JB	2008	88A00	45 hr	+6/-4	28,800
EG	2008	48A40	50 hr	+10/-5	21,600
EK (3)	2008	40M51	40 hr	+10/-5	21,600
DU	2011	48Z40	50 hr	+10/-5	21,600
JD	2014	40B50	40 hr	+10/-5	21,600

 

Code	Jewels	Auto/HW	PR Indicator	Date	Seconds	Comments
DN (1)	17	Handwind	No	No	Small
FC	21	HW+Auto	Yes	window	Center
FB (2)	21	HW+Auto	Yes	window	Center	World Time
FL	23	HW+Auto	Yes	Sub-dial	Small	World Time
FQ	23	Handwind	Yes	No	Small	skeleton
JA	30	HW+Auto	No	window	Center
NA	21	HW+Auto	No	No	Center	Open heart
FS	24	HW+Auto	Yes	No	Small	Open heart
JB	30	HW+Auto	Yes	Window	Center
EG (3)	21	Handwind	Yes	No	Center
EK	22	HW+Auto	Yes	Window	Center
DU	20	Handwind	Yes	No	Small	skeleton
JD	22	HW+Auto	Yes	Sub-dial	Center	weekday

 ⁽¹⁾  DN – this is using the Swiss Peseux 7001 movement
     (later known as ETA 7001)

⁽²⁾  FB – similar to FA used in regular Orient but higher accuracy

     (instead of +25/-10)

⁽³⁾  EK – similar to EJ used in regular Orient but higher accuracy

     (instead of +25/-10)

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