Led Watches - Great Amazing Cool Rare Vintage Watches - Past Present and the Future of Time

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Pulsar

The first digital electronic watch, a PULSAR LED prototype in 1970, was developed jointly by Hamilton Watch Company.The Hamilton Watch Company was established in 1892 when the Keystone Standard Watch Company was forced into bankruptcy and sold at a sheriff's sale to a group of Lancaster, Pennsylvania entrepreneurs whose "objective was to build only watches of the highest quality." During this same year, a merger took place between the newly established Lancaster based watchmaking concern and the Aurora Watch Company of Illinois. A decision was made to name the new company after James Hamilton, owner of a large tract of land which was granted to him from William Penn and included what is now the city of Lancaster. The new company would be known as The Hamilton Watch Company.

Orient

The Orient Touchtron marked the world's first light-emitting diode (LED) in 1970. It had neither gears nor a mainspring. But its electronic module and illuminated digital readout were large steps in the watch-making world. The Touchtron electronic wristwatch featured a display panel developed jointly with Sharp. It also featured an innovative, touch-sensitive module that eliminated the need to touch a switch when displaying the time. One touch to the bezel closed a circuit to the case and illuminated the display.


Synchronar

The first version of a solar watch was produced by inventor Roger Riehl in March 1968, a prototype followed in 1970 and a full production version called the 'Synchronar' was released in 1972.The Synchronar was a very unique and futuristic looking watch for its time , what would be termed as 'Space Age design' back then.
On the top of the watch where the time would usually be displayed there were instead two banks of solar cells and, rather uniquely the time is displayed on the side of the watch.Most LED watches were unable to compete with the much more power efficient LCD watches that started to appear later in the seventies.
However the Synchronar due to its solar power was able to survive and has had one of the longest production runs in watchmaking history, available in one version or another up until 2007.It also had some rather advanced features for the time, including being certified for diving up to 700ft, magnetically controlled switches on top and the ability to automatically adjust for Daylight savings as well as Leap years.

LED Watches

Most watches with LED displays required that the user press a button to see the time displayed for a few seconds, because LEDs used so much power that they could not be kept operating continuously. Usually the LED display color would be red. Watches with LED displays were popular for a few years, but soon the LED displays were superseded by liquid crystal displays (LCDs), which used less battery power and were much more convenient in use, with the display always visible and no need to push a button before seeing the time.


Some Of LED Watch Companies:

Pulsar Hamilton Girard Perregaux Breitling Tiffany&Co Jaeger LeCoultre Longines Orient Synchronar Heuer Wittnauer Lanco Baylor Helbros Uranus Buren Hughes Beltime Sicura Bertone Armitron Microlux Croton Exelar Compuchron Chronosonic Arnex Bulova Gruen intechron Accurist Novus Lamp Digi-Quartz Rado National Semiconductor Sony La Generale Benrus Birks JungHans Klaiber Arnex General Electric Sutton Dugena Waltham Digitime Ricoh Elgin Boeing Texas Instruments TimeBand Fossil Boucher Buler Concord Elektronika Duval

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