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2. Watch strap - Wikipedia

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   A leather watch strap with a butterfly closure Four analog wristwatches for men with variants of the widespread metal watch strap made from stainless steel, the two in the middle being of the most common type. A watch strap, watch band, watch bracelet or watch belt is a bracelet that straps a wrist watch onto the wrist. [1]

3. Astron (wristwatch) - Wikipedia

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   The Astron was unveiled in Tokyo on December 25, 1969, after ten years of research and development at Suwa Seikosha (currently named Seiko Epson), a manufacturing company of Seiko Group. Within one week 100 gold watches had been sold, at a retail price of 450,000 yen ( US$1,250 (equivalent to $10,386 in 2023)) each (at the time, equivalent to ...

4. Watch - Wikipedia

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   The commercial introduction of the quartz watch in 1969 in the form of the Seiko Astron 35SQ, and in 1970 in the form of the Omega Beta 21 was a revolutionary improvement in watch technology. In place of a balance wheel, which oscillated at perhaps 5 or 6 beats per second, these devices used a quartz-crystal resonator , which vibrated at 8,192 ...

5. Tudor Watches - Wikipedia

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   In the early 2000s, sports watches with fabric straps became popular. [34] At the 2010 launch of the Heritage Chrono watch, Tudor supplied both a metal bracelet and a fabric strap with the watch. Tudor's fabric straps are woven by a passementerie manufacturer near St.-Etienne, the centre of French silk weaving since the 15th century.

6. Seiko Instruments - Wikipedia

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   In 1937, Daini Seikosha Co., Ltd. (第二精工舎, Dai-ni-seikōsha), literally the second workshop for manufacturing Seiko timepieces, was established in Kamedo, Kōtō, Tokyo as a spin-off of the watch manufacturing division from Seikosha (精工舎, Seikōsha), so had been making the Seiko watches until 2020. The company changed its name to ...

7. Diving watch - Wikipedia

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   The watch cases of diving watches must be adequately water (pressure) resistant and be able to endure the galvanic corrosiveness of seawater, so the cases are generally made out of materials like grade 316L or 904L austenitic stainless steel and other steel alloys with higher Pitting Resistance Equivalent factors (PRE-factors), titanium ...