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·looking through Bloomberg today I stumbled upon this. It looks quite beautiful and historically interesting. Hard to discuss the pricing on watches these days as it gets confusing
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bl...50th-anniversary-limited-edition-specs-photos
In watch enthusiast circles, it's a story you learn pretty early on, and it's one that has an easily identifiable villain, or hero, however you want to look at it. In 1969, there were a number of efforts being made to reduce quartz clocks to a size, and with a low enough power consumption, to be viable in a wristwatch, but on Christmas Day of that year, Seiko won the race by releasing the very first practical quartz wristwatch. This was the Seiko Quartz Astron 35 SQ. The Astron was very much a first-generation effort; it had a relatively short battery life (about a year, which was still pretty impressive by the technology standards of the time) and it was very expensive; Seiko only made 200 of them and they were sold only in Japan.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bl...50th-anniversary-limited-edition-specs-photos
In watch enthusiast circles, it's a story you learn pretty early on, and it's one that has an easily identifiable villain, or hero, however you want to look at it. In 1969, there were a number of efforts being made to reduce quartz clocks to a size, and with a low enough power consumption, to be viable in a wristwatch, but on Christmas Day of that year, Seiko won the race by releasing the very first practical quartz wristwatch. This was the Seiko Quartz Astron 35 SQ. The Astron was very much a first-generation effort; it had a relatively short battery life (about a year, which was still pretty impressive by the technology standards of the time) and it was very expensive; Seiko only made 200 of them and they were sold only in Japan.
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