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2. Tissot - Wikipedia

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   Tissot was founded in 1853 by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son Charles-Émile Tissot in the Swiss city of Le Locle, in the Neuchâtel canton of the Jura Mountains area. [2] The father and son team worked as a casemaker (Charles-Félicien Tissot) and watchmaker (Charles-Emile). His son having expressed an interest in watchmaking from a young ...

3. Mathey-Tissot - Wikipedia

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   Mathey-Tissot no longer produces its own watch movements in house. Instead, the company customizes mechanical and quartz watches with movements sourced from others. [4] Its logo is similar to the "peace symbol" of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, but turned upside-down, with the words Mathey-Tissot in manuscript, above the printed words "since 1886".

4. Automatic quartz - Wikipedia

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   The first such watch was released in Germany in January 1988 and April of the same year in Japan (under the name Auto-Quartz). [3] The watches had an average monthly rate of ±15 sec and provided 75 hours of continuous operation when fully powered. Early automatic quartz movements were called AGS (Automatic Generating System).

5. Quartz crisis - Wikipedia

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   On 25 December 1969, Seiko unveiled the Astron, the world's first quartz watch, which marked the beginning of the quartz revolution. [3] [4] [16] [18] The first Swiss quartz analog watch – the Ebauches SA Beta 21 – arrived at the 1970 Basel Fair. [16] [19] The Beta 21 was released by numerous manufacturers including the Omega Electroquartz.

6. Astron (wristwatch) - Wikipedia

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   Within one week 100 gold watches had been sold, at a retail price of 450,000 yen (US$1,250 (equivalent to $10,386 in 2023)) each (at the time, equivalent to the price of a medium-sized car). [1] Essential elements included a XY-type quartz oscillator of 8192 Hz (8192 = 2 13 ), a hybrid integrated circuit , and a phase locked ultra-small ...

7. 20YO Blind Cat Found Stuck On Ice Chunk In Lake ... - AOL

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   A blind senior cat in his 20th year left home at night and ended up stuck on an ice chunk in the middle of a freezing lake. Hours later, things were looking dire, and they probably would’ve ...