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From vintage-inspired pieces to sleek minimalist designs, Citizen to Seiko to Timex, these are the 30 best cheap watches for men under $500.
The Casio F-91W is a digital watch manufactured by Japanese electronics company Casio. Introduced in June 1989 [1] as a successor of the F-87W, [2] it is popular for its low price, long battery life and iconic design. [3] As of 2011, annual production of the watch is 3 million units, which makes it the most sold watch in the world. [4]
Within one week 100 gold watches had been sold, at a retail price of 450,000 yen (US$1,250 (equivalent to $10,386 in 2023)) each (at the time, equivalent to the price of a medium-sized car). [1] Essential elements included a XY-type quartz oscillator of 8192 Hz (8192 = 2 13 ), a hybrid integrated circuit , and a phase locked ultra-small ...
This list is a duplicate of Category:Watch brands, which will likely be more up-to-date and complete. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname.
The first such watch was released in Germany in January 1988 and April of the same year in Japan (under the name Auto-Quartz). [3] The watches had an average monthly rate of ±15 sec and provided 75 hours of continuous operation when fully powered. Early automatic quartz movements were called AGS (Automatic Generating System).
It is also possible for quartz clocks and watches to have their quartz crystal oscillate at a higher frequency than 32 768 (= 2 15) Hz (high frequency quartz movements [4]) and/or generate digital pulses more than once per second, to drive a stepping motor powered second hand at a higher power of 2 than once every second, [5] but the electric ...
In 2010, Miyota (Citizen Watch) of Japan introduced a newly developed movement that uses a 3-pronged quartz crystal that was exclusively produced for Bulova to be used in the Precisionist or Accutron II line, a new type of quartz watch with ultra-high frequency (262.144 kHz) which is claimed to be accurate to +/− 10 seconds a year and has a ...
With the Omega Marine Chronometer wristwatch movement of 1974 as a basis a Quartz Marine Chronometer clock movement was designed with a high-frequency 4.19 MHz (2 22 or 4,194,304 Hz) quartz oscillator that should be capable of an accuracy of approximately ± 0.01 second/day. Where quartz elements were usually lens-shaped, this one was barrel ...