Wednesday, January 25, 2012

1970s MONTINE Electronic Model Gents Watch

Found this piece in one of the boxes of watches. It is an interesting piece. I have tried to do some research on its history and so far I have come up with nothing. The movement is an interesting one.






A bit of history on electronic watch, during the late 60s and early 70s, there was the competition on who will come up with an electronic watch first, various watch companies embarked on this and Timex was very active on it. Unfortunately, after much investment and Timex was able to come out with electronic transistor watch first but the Japanese came out with quartz which was smaller, slimmer and lighter and the rest was history.

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