A cheap quartz watch from Japan and later Hong Kong was more accurate than a 5k handmade Swiss mechanical watch.
Remember that the 1980s was a time when people still needed a watch for PRACTICAL purposes- they needed to tell time.
Which a digital watch does so perfectly that you can use it for celestial navigation. And without any maintenance.
Chips. Tiny batteries. Mass production. The Oriental black magic of the eighties.
Remember that the 1980s was a time when people still needed a watch for PRACTICAL purposes- they needed to tell time. Which a digital watch does so perfectly that you can use it for celestial navigation. And without any maintenance.
Chips. Tiny batteries. Mass production. The Oriental black magic of the eighties.