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The first digital display watch was made in the USA...
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Grrrrr!
Allt US watch History
Assume the US was cut off from all European and Asian watchEs and resources. How could watch development proceed from 1800 onward? By 2020, which mechanical and electronic watch companies would exist?
The first digital display watch was made in the USA...
The long post I just thumbed it was truncated by the iOS software. I’m not typing it in again. Grrrrr!
You are saying that the companies initally making mechanical watches would be...
reply Avatar IWC, Timex, Hamilton, Benrus? RGM might come late 20th century? Quartz manufactures might be Hamilton, Timex?
Good addition. I wonder if all those PW manufacturers transitioned to wristwatches..
In the early 20th century?
More like the middle 20th, but many made both for decades.
My father was given a Hamilton 782 pocket watch by his college buddies in 1949—he commanded their ROTC company. I own a Hamilton 992 railroad watch (16 size pocket watch) from 1946. But my father in law gave my wife the (tiny) Bulova His Excellency wristw...
Ball watch!
Because I am a stench supporter of BALL watch (it may be revived in US and shifted to Swiss, but who cares as long as it makes durable watches)! Accuracy under adverse conditions!
In the 1890’s.
But Ball didn’t, as I recall, make his own watches. He used watches made by others and applied his accuracy improvements. In response to a problem of train crashes, he became a consultant to the railroad industry and established the standard for railroad ...
Yup, they even use VC movement in the distance past from my understanding.
But hey, dun most companies used ETA movement from late 90’s to pre 2010? ; )
