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  2. Zenith (watchmaker) - Wikipedia

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    Zenith SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker. The company was started in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel [1] and is one of the oldest continuously operating watchmakers. Favre-Jacot invented the concept of "in house movements", believing that only through control of the entire watchmaking process could the highest ...

  3. The Swatch Group - Wikipedia

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    The Swatch Group Ltd is a Swiss manufacturer of watches and jewellery. The company was founded in 1983 by the merger of ASUAG and SSIH to move to manufacturing quartz-crystal watches to resolve the quartz crisis threatening the traditional Swiss watchmaking industry. [2][3][4] The Swatch Group is the largest watch company in the world and ...

  4. Quartz clock - Wikipedia

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    Quartz clocks and quartz watches are timepieces that use an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time. This crystal oscillator creates a signal with very precise frequency, so that quartz clocks and watches are at least an order of magnitude more accurate than mechanical clocks. Generally, some form of digital logic ...

  5. Patek Philippe - Wikipedia

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    The Aquanaut was designed as a luxury sports watch for a younger generation of watch enthusiasts, featuring a contemporary and sporty aesthetic alongside the refined craftsmanship that Patek Philippe is known for. The first Aquanaut model, the Ref. 5060A, was crafted from stainless steel and equipped with a black dial and a black rubber strap.

  6. Automatic quartz - Wikipedia

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    Seiko AGS SCUBA Diver 200m 5M23-6A60, 1993. 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 ...

  7. Astron (wristwatch) - Wikipedia

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    Analogue. Introduced. December 25, 1969. Quartz Movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969 (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Inv. Inv. 2010-006) The Astron wristwatch, formally known as the Seiko Quartz-Astron 35SQ, was the world's first "quartz clock" wristwatch. It is now registered on the List of IEEE Milestones as a key advance in electrical engineering.

  8. Quartz crisis - Wikipedia

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    Quartz movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969. The quartz crisis (Swiss) or quartz revolution (American, Japan and other countries) was the advancement in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s, that largely replaced mechanical watches around the world. [1][2] It caused a significant decline of ...

  9. 3 Surprising Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Hummingbirds

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    Hummingbirds are incredibly agile in the air. They fly forwards and backwards to move from plant to plant and perch to perch, and they employ the hovering mode when extracting nectar from feeders ...

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