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The Casio CA-53W is a digital calculator watch manufactured by the Japanese electronics company Casio and was introduced in 1988 [1] as a successor to the CA-50. It became famous for its appearance in the American science fiction films Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990) [2] and later for appearing in the American TV series Breaking Bad (2008–2013).
It starts with the retro appeal of old styles of art, clothing, mores, and then grafts modern or futuristic technologies onto it, creating a mélange of past, present, and future elements. Steampunk , a term applying both to the retrojection of futuristic technology into an alternative Victorian age, and the application of neo-Victorian styles ...
The Futurematic is a self-winding [1] wrist watch without a crown. It was manufactured between 1951 and 1959 by the Swiss watch manufacturer Jaeger-LeCoultre. The Futurematic was the world's first watch without a crown for winding the mainspring, having a flat crown on the back that was used solely for setting the time. [2]
In 2003, the Orient Technical Center (OTC) was established and the assembly of luxury watches began in Ugo, Ogachi, Akita, Japan. [11] In 2004, the high-precision caliber 88700 movement went on sale via the Royal Orient watch line. In 2005, Orient Star Retro-Future collection was launched.
Quartz movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969. The quartz crisis (Swiss) or quartz revolution (America, Japan and other countries) was the advancement in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s, that largely replaced mechanical watches around the world.
Retrofuturism is concerned with how past generations viewed the future. It's a diverse aesthetic, ...