TCS Daily: Wrist Action
Are you wearing a wrist watch right now? It's almost certainly an electronic watch; quartz movement; maybe digital or maybe analog. It's incredibly accurate and unless you prefer to spend thousands on a wrist watch, incredibly cheap.
The technology on your wrist is more amazing than you may know – the culmination of a half century of time piece development that has given the common man accuracy and reliability not even available to those rich enough to afford the finest work of Swiss watchmakers.
And it all started fifty years ago this month, in January 1957, in Lancaster, Pa., when the Hamilton Watch Co. introduced the Ventura – the first electric watch. …
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