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  2. Seiko - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Kintarō Hattori, 1916. In 1881, Seiko founder Kintarō Hattori opened a watch and jewelry shop called "K. Hattori" (服部時計店) in Tokyo. [12]Kintarō Hattori had been working as clockmaker apprentice since the age of 13, with multiple stints in different watch shops, such as “Kobayashi Clock Shop”, run by an expert technician named Seijiro Sakurai; “Kameda Clock Shop ...

  3. Quartz clock - Wikipedia

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    [47] [52] In December 1969, Seiko produced the world's first commercial quartz wristwatch, the Seiko Quartz-Astron 35SQ [53] [54] which is now honored with IEEE Milestone. [55] [56] The Astron had a quartz oscillator with a frequency of 8,192 Hz and was accurate to 0.2 seconds per day, 5 seconds per month, or 1 minute per year. The Astron was ...

  4. Ruputer - Wikipedia

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    The Ruputer is a wristwatch computer developed in 1998 by Seiko Instruments, a subsidiary of the Seiko Group. It was introduced on 10 June 1998. [1] In the US, it was later marketed as the onHand PC by Matsucom. The Ruputer has a 16-bit, 3.6 MHz processor and 2 MB of non-volatile storage memory and 128 KB of RAM.

  5. Chronograph - Wikipedia

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    The term chronograph comes from the Greek χρονογράφος (khronográphos 'time recording'), from χρόνος (khrónos 'time') and γράφω (gráphō 'to write'). '). Early versions of the chronograph are the only ones that actually used any "writing": marking the dial with a small pen attached to the index so that the length of the pen mark would indicate how much time had

  6. Watch - Wikipedia

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    A stopwatch is a watch that measures intervals of time. ... With a 23 jewel movement and manual winding ... Seiko 7002–7020 Diver's 200 m on a 4-ring NATO style strap.

  7. Seikosha - Wikipedia

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    1997 — Seiko Instruments & Electronics is renamed Seiko Instruments Inc. 2007 — Seiko Corporation is renamed Seiko Holdings Corporation. [2] 2009 — Seiko Instruments becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Seiko Holdings. 2020 — Seiko Precision transfers its business operations to Seiko Time Systems Inc. and Seiko Solutions Inc. and dissolves.

  8. Stopwatch - Wikipedia

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    A stopwatch is a timepiece designed to measure the amount of time that elapses between its activation and deactivation. A large digital version of a stopwatch designed for viewing at a distance, as in a sports stadium, is called a stop clock. In manual timing, the clock is started and stopped by a person pressing a button.

  9. Hamilton Watch Company - Wikipedia

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    The Hamilton Watch Company is a Swiss manufacturer of wristwatches based in Bienne, Switzerland.Founded in 1892 as an American firm, the Hamilton Watch Company ended American manufacture in 1969, shifting manufacturing operations to the Buren factory in Switzerland.