Quartz is a material that both produces and reacts to electricity. When subjected to pressure, quartz produces a small amount ...

That ironic dichotomy is made possible in part by a little technology known as the quartz movement, and it all started with a watch released on Christmas Day 1969 in Japan. The Seiko Quartz Astron ...

one watch with Japanese movement and another with Swiss movement. working in New York City. Today we're gonna break apart these two watches made by Carpenter watches. The one on the left ...

But the historical significance of the Japanese brand extends ... boasted the world’s first quartz movement and was 100 times more accurate than any other watch on earth. It also marked the ...

The Swiss dominated the watchmaking for centuries, but when the rise of reliable quartz movement ... of watches at an affordable price point that previously did not exist. The Japanese watch ...

It was a limited edition of 100 gold-case watches, priced at ¥450,000, equivalent then to the cost of a Toyota Corolla. Its battery-powered movement featured a quartz oscillator with a frequency ...

The watch is also powered by the same quartz movement as the original. Developed in-house, the caliber 1210 is equipped with a mechanical motion detector that helps preserve the battery by ...