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Thanks Mitch, it was a long read but you got the point exactly - the art and science of timekeeping didn’t, as the advertisers and influencers might have us believe, begin in the 1800s in an...

A bit more on the early quartz wristwatch development (and a great site in general, with articles on a lot of interesting Omega projects such as the X-33 and Alaska Speedmasters ) is here...

James May, TV personality and parsnip enthusiast, explaining it all more succinctly:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8YUM2Y2vvY

Mr May has retained all his various watches and is currently...

I think it's quite pleasing that the efforts of the watch industry to make electronics smaller and less power-hungry to fit the peculiar constraints of our favourite wrist-worn devices have helped...

Good luck with those! Well worth rescuing if you have the skills. So much interesting stuff around, often hidden in plain sight.



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Amazing to go from a wardrobe-sized quartz...

This is covers similar ground, but with more tweed:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ9_bOIj49s

Presented by the magnificent Tim Hunkin, who did the animations too.

I am never sure if anyone reads this stuff, and these days it disappears off to well-deserved forum oblivion in less time than it takes to write. The occasional reply is nice to see. Thank you, both....

Although I began the quartz watch section with a nod to the incredible Seiko Astron of 1969, I kind of skipped over the Japanese contribution in favour of the European development.

Entirely...

Thanks all, I am humbled some of you made it through. I rather expected this to sink without trace, being mainly a document of me falling down a very deep rabbit hole. I was wondering exactly why...

Clepsydra, pendulums and quartz? Have I some lock-down cabin fever? A sake too far?

Well with one thing and another, I have been favouring my simple quartz watches lately. In this I suspect I am...