seiko quartz dress watch (day79)
a 1985 seiko quartz dress watch patterned from a seiko lasalle. a marvel of engineering at the time because of its size (4mm thick), this watch cost around USD300. despite its age now it still keeps very good time and only needs battery replacement every 2 years. by the early 1980's the swiss watch industry was in a quandary due to the new quartz technology (started in 1970's) dominated by japan through seiko, citizen and casio. the swiss watch industry was on a verge of collapse until they began to jump into the bandwagon to develop their own line of quartz, the swatch , but this is another part of horology.
seiko quartz dress watch (day79)
a 1985 seiko quartz dress watch patterned from a seiko lasalle. a marvel of engineering at the time because of its size (4mm thick), this watch cost around USD300. despite its age now it still keeps very good time and only needs battery replacement every 2 years. by the early 1980's the swiss watch industry was in a quandary due to the new quartz technology (started in 1970's) dominated by japan through seiko, citizen and casio. the swiss watch industry was on a verge of collapse until they began to jump into the bandwagon to develop their own line of quartz, the swatch , but this is another part of horology.