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An exception is Timex and Oris [5] [6] who in the 1960s produced fully jeweled pin-pallet watches. By 1980 inexpensive quartz watches took over the market for low-end watches which pin pallet watches had dominated, and production ceased. Quartz technology is gradually replacing the last uses of pin pallet movements in timers and alarm clocks.
Timex Group USA, Inc. (formerly known as Timex Corporation) is an American global watch manufacturing company founded in 1854 as the Waterbury Clock Company in Waterbury, Connecticut. In 1944, the company became insolvent but was reformed into Timex Corporation .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 November 2024. Type of clock A traditional wind-up (key-wound), mechanical spring-powered alarm clock An alarm clock or alarm is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of people at a specified time. The primary function of these clocks is to awaken people from their night's sleep or ...
1928 Longines Wrist-Chronograph with the 1925 modified Cal. 13.33Z Flyback function. The oldest Flyback Chronograph in existence, to be seen in the Museum of Longines. [1]A flyback chronograph is a watch complication, in which the user can use a reset function without the need to first stop the chronograph, by a single press on an additional pusher at the 4 o'clock mark.
ZX Spectrum outputs one video line in exactly 224 CPU clock cycles, where the CPU clock rate equals 3.5 MHz. This exactly matches the PAL standard 64 μs line time. However, the ZX Spectrum produces only 312 lines to form one display frame, while the PAL standard recommends 312.5 lines. As a consequence, the frame rate of the ZX Spectrum is ...
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Timex Group B.V., or Timex Group, is an American - Dutch holding company headquartered in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands and Middlebury, Connecticut. [ citation needed ] It is the corporate parent of several global watchmaking companies including Timex Group USA, Inc. , [ 1 ] TMX Philippines, Inc., and Timex Group India Ltd.