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2. From Timex to Tissot, These Are the Quartz Watches To Buy - AOL

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   Where a mechanical watch relies on small wheels and springs to keep time, a quartz watch uses an. If you judge a watch by its craftsmanship and artistry, then mechanical watches are the champions ...

3. Tissot - Wikipedia

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   The Tissot company was also the first to make watches out of plastic (Idea 2001 in 1971), stone (the Alpine granite RockWatch in 1985), mother of pearl (the Pearl watch in 1987), and wood (the Wood watch in 1988). [2] Tissot introduced its first tactile watch, with "T-Touch," technology in 1999; watches containing this technology have touch ...

4. Mathey-Tissot - Wikipedia

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   Mathey-Tissot is a Swiss watch maker of prestige watches, originally established in 1886 by Edmond Mathey-Tissot at Les Ponts-de-Martel in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Mathey-Tissot is an independent watchmaker, with its headquarters in Geneva. It is not associated with Tissot, another Swiss watchmaking firm.

5. Automatic quartz - Wikipedia

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   Automatic quartz is a collective term describing watch movements that combine a self-winding rotor mechanism [1] (as used in automatic mechanical watches) to generate electricity with a piezoelectric quartz crystal as its timing element. Such movements aim to provide the advantages of quartz without the inconvenience and environmental impact of ...

6. List of Swiss watch manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Mathey-Tissot: 1886 Les Ponts-de-Martel: Edmond Mathey-Tissot Geneva: Maurice Lacroix: 1975 Saignelégier: Zürich 220 Maitres du Temps: 2005 La Chaux-de-Fonds Watchmaker Steven M. Holtzman Mido (watch) 1918 Biel/Bienne: George G. Schaeren Le Locle: Member of the Swatch group: The Swatch Group: Franz Linder, President: Minerva 1858 [2] Villeret ...

7. Watch - Wikipedia

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   The first self-winding mechanism was invented for pocket watches in 1770 by Abraham-Louis Perrelet, [57] but the first "self-winding", or "automatic", wristwatch was the invention of a British watch repairer named John Harwood in 1923. This type of watch winds itself without requiring any special action by the wearer.