After that you will never look confused when somebody says "quartz watch."

It features images of two quartz watches, large and small.

The device looks like a button cell for a quartz watch.

None of this means the day of the quartz watch is over.

Major clothing companies also emerged and quartz watches were first made during this period.

Quartz watches were cheaper to produce and even more accurate.

To stay culturally literate you look at a few quartz watches.

It functioned much as a quartz watch when the machine was powered off.

At the same time Japan was flooding the market with cheap quartz watches.

Its quartz watches are housed in a solid plastic case and use 51 parts instead of the standard 91.

Rolex participated in the development of the original quartz watch movements.

It is not uncommon to find quartz watches given away for free in boxes of cereal!

-Have you ever wondered why it is called a quartz watch?

The quartz watch was redesigned for manufacturing efficiency and fewer parts.

As of 2007, Seiko has sold more than eight million automatic quartz watches.

By the 1980s, quartz watches had taken over most of the watch market from the mechanical watch industry.

More recently, electronic automatic quartz watches powered by arm movement have been developed.

On one side is a Swiss quartz watch.

That year they also started making quartz watches.

For this reason, electronic watches are often called quartz watches.

Also this does not affect the actual time keeping in the slightest, which is very precise, even by quartz watch standards.

The Observatory competitions ended with the advent of the quartz watch movement, in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The surgical steel quartz watch, water-resistant to 100 feet, comes with a black leather band.

This is the basis of quartz watches; the resonance controls the clock frequency.

In actual value terms, this movement accounted for about 5-6% of total sales of quartz watches.