DIGITAL WATCH(1970)

HAMILTON WATCH COMPANY DEVELOPS A SPACE AGE TIMEPIECE.

The digital watch is one in which the time is displayed as a series of digital. In watch or quartz clock the battery sends electricity to quartz crystal through an electronic circuit. quartz crystal  at a precise frequency: exactly 32768 times each second.the digital and analog signals are used to transmit using electric signals.in an analog technology information is translated into electric pulses of varying amplitude.

The first wrist time piece to tell the time digitally was the Hamilton watch company "pulsar". This 18 carat gold cased device used a Red LED display to the the user what time it was In clean, crisp, twentieth century digital at the push of a simple button and retailed for a cool $2,100. Teething the problem meant the pulsar did not become commercial available until 1972, but when it was released, it caused many to think that the end had come for conventional dial face watches with mechanical movements. Hamilton claimed that their inspiration for developing a digital  watches was the futuristic digital clock that they had created for the  1968 film 2001: a space odyssey.

The only problem with the pulsar was the hefty accompanying price tag although many would argue that $2100 was cheap for the opportunity to look like James bond wearing a swanky gold digital watch. The answer for those who dud not want to pay so much for a watch canes from Texas instruments, who introduced the plastic strapped version that retailed  for just $20 in 1975 and soon after dropped to $10. This spelled the end for Hamilton and led to them becoming a  subsidiary of Seiko.

Development in digital watches continued the next three decade and included the use of liquid crystal displays to replace light emitting diode in  early 1970s . light emitting diode which could not always be left on due to their high level of power consumption. Through out the 1980 many amazing innovation were incorporated into digital display, including calculator, thermometer, language translators, and even miniature television.

some quartz watches are watches are designed to have extended battery life which can last up to 3 or more years. most of these watches do not have second hands.