Do you know Hayashi Seiki?
http://www.hayashiseiki.co.jp/
This company is a special watch parts manufacture which makes a Grand Seiko case for Seiko Instrument Inc. for a long time, including the first Grand Seiko's.
This company is located in Fukushima Pref., Japan.
So, the company had huge problems in 3.11 earthquake.
When the enormous earthquake hit, Hayashi Seiki was making a watch case for the 130aniv. Grand Seiko.
Their factory was completely fallen down and destroyed then.
The 1st thing Hayashiseiki did after the quake was digging the cases for the Grand Seiko from ground.
The 2nd thing was rescuing machine tools so that they could move to new factory.
Seiko Instruments Co.,Ltd helped these Hayashi Seiki's efforts a lot.
Source: Chronos Japan edition 2011. Nov
