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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Depending on the brand of watch, these vibrations control several different mechanisms that turn the hour and minute hands. Bulova uses the electronic tuning fork developed in its Accutron watch, a battery-powered model that is just a shade less accurate than the Accuquartz; Timex employs a conventional balance wheel; Benrus, the Swiss and the Japanese use a "stepdown" motor. Linking these mechanisms to the quartz crystal is an integrated electronic-circuit chip, and U.S. electronic firms are enthusiastically moving to supply the chips to the quartz watch market. Japanese, Swiss and American watchmakers are buying theirs from such firms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: The World Watch War | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...claims to sell more than 50% of watches bought in U.S. stores. Bulova, biggest American producer of jeweled-lever watches (1969 sales: $159 million), is an increasingly tough competitor in the medium-and high-priced range. Swiss manufacturers lost their technological lead when Bulova developed the battery-powered Accutron a decade ago. The company has since sold more than 1,500,000 Accutrons and brought the price down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Nervous Ticks | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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