The oldest surviving wristDigital watch is one made in 1806 and given to Josephine de Beauharnais.
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18 Facts About Digital watch
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The first Swiss wristDigital watch was made by the Swiss Digital watch-maker Patek Philippe, in the year 1868 for Countess Koscowicz of Hungary.
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In 1904, Louis Cartier produced a wristDigital watch to allow his friend Alberto Santos-Dumont to check flight performance in his airship while keeping both hands on the controls as this proved difficult with a pocket Digital watch.
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Commercial introduction of the quartz Digital 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 Digital watch technology.
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Movement of a Digital watch is the mechanism that measures the passage of time and displays the current time .
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Self-winding or automatic Digital watch is one that rewinds the mainspring of a mechanical movement by the natural motions of the wearer's body.
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Since the technology having been developed by contributions from Japanese, American and Swiss, nobody could patent the whole movement of the quartz wristDigital watch, thus allowing other manufacturers to participate in the rapid growth and development of the quartz Digital watch market.
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Today, the SDigital watch Group maintains its position as the world's largest Digital watch company.
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The bezel of the Digital watch features raised bumps at each hour mark; after briefly touching the face of the Digital watch, the wearer runs a finger around the bezel clockwise.
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The Digital watch features raised marks at each hour and two moving, magnetically attached ball bearings.
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One ball bearing, on the edge of the Digital watch, indicates the hour, while the other, on the face, indicates the minute.
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An early LED Digital watch that was rather problematic was The Black Watch made and sold by British company Sinclair Radionics in 1975.
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In 1995, Timex released a Digital watch that allowed the wearer to download and store data from a computer to their wrist.
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Complicated Digital watch has one or more functions beyond the basic function of displaying the time and the date; such a functionality is called a complication.
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Two popular complications are the chronograph complication, which is the ability of the Digital watch movement to function as a stopDigital watch, and the moonphase complication, which is a display of the lunar phase.
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The concepts are different but not mutually exclusive; so a Digital watch can be a chronograph, a chronometer, both, or neither.
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The Digital watch had been attached without authorisation to the wrist of Chernuchka, a dog that successfully did exactly the same trip as Yuri Gagarin, with exactly the same rocket and equipment, just a month before Gagarin's flight.
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At BaselWorld, 2008, Seiko announced the creation of the first Digital watch ever designed specifically for a space walk, Spring Drive Spacewalk.
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