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2. Seiko - Wikipedia

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   The name of the Seiko 5 sub brand is a reference to 5 attributes that any watch belonging to it would typically exhibit, those being: An automatic watch movement; The day and the date displayed on the dial; Water resistance to an acceptable degree; A recessed crown at the 4 o'clock position; A durable case and bracelet [30] [31]

3. 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 ...

4. Spring Drive - Wikipedia

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   [1] [8] In 1999, the first production models were made available in Japan as limited edition, manual-wind watches in both the Credor and Seiko brands. [2] [5] [8] The first non-limited model was released in Japan in 2002. [5] The 1st spring drive automatic-wind movement of Grand Seiko was released in September 2004, the reference number is SBGA001.

5. Automatic watch - Wikipedia

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   An automatic watch, also known as a self-winding watch or simply an automatic, is a mechanical watch where the natural motion of the wearer provides energy to wind the mainspring, making manual winding unnecessary if worn enough. [1] It is distinguished from a manual watch in that a manual watch must have its mainspring wound by hand at regular ...

6. Pulsar (watch) - Wikipedia

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   Pulsar (watch) A modern analog Pulsar watch. Pulsar is a watch brand and currently a Seiko Watch Corporation of America (SCA) division. Pulsar was the world's first electronic digital watch. Current Pulsar watches are mostly analog and use the same movements in Seikos such as the 7T62 quartz chronograph movement. Pulsar quartz chronograph.

7. Quartz crisis - Wikipedia

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   Quartz movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969. The quartz crisis (Swiss) or quartz revolution (America, 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 ...