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2. Solar-powered watch - Wikipedia

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   Seiko LCD Solar Alarm Chronograph A156-5000, 1978: Seiko's first solar-powered watch A solar-powered watch or light-powered watch is a watch that is powered entirely or partly by a solar cell . History

3. 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 ...

4. Automatic quartz - Wikipedia

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   'Seiko Quartz Automatic Generating System' (A.G.S. = early Kinetic), Perpetuum Nobile (produced in 1989), Cal. 7M45, No. 246 of 700 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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

7. Chronometer watch - Wikipedia

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   However, in 1966 and 1967, Girard Perregaux manufactured approximately 670 wristwatches with the Calibre 32A movement, which became Observatory Chronometers certified by the Neuchatel Observatory, while in 1968, 1969 and 1970 Seiko had 226 wristwatches with its 4520 and 4580 Calibres certified. These observatory chronometers were then sold to ...