Seiko SDGA001
Sep 23, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS MARK McARTHUR-CHRISTIE
IN 1970, American watch firm Pulsar launched the first digital watch, the Time Computer. It had raced to get the new watch ready, terrified that Seiko would get there first. The Japanese firm had already trumped the rest of the world in December 1969 with the first quartz watch, the analogue Astron.
With its usual foresight, Seiko had bet that the LED (Light Emitting Diode) technology that Pulsar chose had too many
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