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Italian Watches The wristwatch was invented in the late nineteenth century by Patek Philippe, but initially was considered an accessory exclusively for women. Among the men the pocket watch was commonly used. In the early twentieth century, the Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont had trouble reading the time on the plane, and asked his friend Louis Cartier a more practical watch. Cartier gave him a wrist strap with leather Dumont which never came without. When Cartier became popular in Paris, so he began to sell these watches also to male customers. During World War I officers of all armies in battle discovered that it was easy to look on the wrist rather than remove the watch from his pocket. We must remember that men deployed on the front line came from the poorer social classes and could not afford personal watches, indispensable to synchronize artillery and infantry attacks. The rapid increase in losses of soldiers in combat, led the Chiefs to decide to give the whole army convenient, accurate, reliable wristwatches, with features that allow immediate reading time, making it luminescent for night vision. Of crucial importance was the industrial scale production of these watches, for a faster and more affordable distribution. The first use of electricity supplied by a battery in a wristwatch by replacing the spring was in the model Hamilton Electric 500, released in 1957 by the Hamilton Watch Company, Pennsylvania. The first prototype of Quartz wristwatch was developed in the Swiss laboratories CEH in 1962. The first model in commercial production was the Seiko 35 SQ Astron, 1969. These watches still had analog dial with lancets. Some models in addition to the battery use sunlight as an energy source or the movement of the same clock using an electric generator coupled to a rotor (automatic watch). With the development of electronics and price reductions digital watches became popular since the seventies, which showed the time directly with digits instead of using hands, a revolutionary innovation. The first prototype was the Pulsar digital watch, created by the collaboration between Hamilton Watch Company and Electro-date in 1970. The commercial version was released in 1972 and had a series of seven-segment display in red, heavy energy consumers. Then came the LCD display, with four models with six digits by Seiko in 1973. With the advent of the microprocessor, watches may include various functions including stopwatch, calculator, game, camera, flash, mobile phone etc. In the eighties Seiko put a watch on the market that included a television monitor. However, since the electronics for the radio and batteries era were too bulky, were housed in an outer box to carry in your pocket. In 2000 a watch was put on the market with a fully integrated TV and the autonomy of an hour. Several companies have tried to make wristwatches including their own computers. IBM has developed a model able to run Linux. Some watches are able to synchronize with a time signal transmitted by radio and derived from atomic clocks. Despite the cost, accuracy and reliability of digital watches, mechanical watches are currently not completely disappeared. Indeed in some cases have become status symbols. |
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