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The first smartwatch was the Linux Watch, developed in 1998 by Steve Mann [60] which he presented on February 7, 2000. Seiko launched the Ruputer in Japan- it was a wristwatch computer and it had a 3.6 MHz processor. In 1999, Samsung launched the world's first watch phone. It was named the SPH-WP10.
In 1969, Seiko produced the world's first quartz wristwatch, the Astron. [200] During the 1970s, the introduction of digital watches made using transistors and plastic parts enabled companies to reduce their work force. By the 1970s, many of those firms that maintained more complicated metalworking techniques had gone bankrupt.
A modern analog Pulsar watch. Pulsar is a watch brand and currently a Seiko Watch Corporation of America (SCA) division. Pulsar was the world's first electronic digital watch. Current Pulsar watches are mostly analog and use the same movements in Seikos such as the 7T62 quartz chronograph movemen
In 1957, Hamilton introduced the world's first electric watch, the Hamilton Electric 500. [11] It was available in a variety of non-traditional asymmetrical case styles [12] including the Ventura that was designed by Richard Arbib. [13] The watch was worn by Elvis Presley, who also featured it in the movie Blue Hawaii. [14]
Omega calibre 1611 Chrono-Quartz. The Omega Chrono-Quartz was the world's first digital/analogue chronograph. It was invented by Omega SA.The watch launched at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and was Omega's flagship chronograph at that time.
Sometimes inventions are invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a more practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first known working version of the invention is used here.
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The first digital watch was the Pulsar, introduced by the Hamilton Watch Company in 1972. The "Pulsar" became a brand name, and would later be acquired by Seiko in 1978. In 1982, a Pulsar watch (NL C01) was released which could store 24 digits, likely making it the first watch with user-programmable memory, or the first "memorybank" watch.