Light Emitting Diode

brianbennett863

The fourth LED watch I own (an unmarked watch from the 70s) died, I have replaced the battery but to no avail. So that one is not in the picture. Hard to imagine that the first watches that came out cost more than a steel Rolex, much more! I find it a bit painful to see that even high-end Swiss brands were forced to market digital and and analogue display quartz watches in the 70s in an attempt to counter the wave of watches coming from Japan and other countries. Centuries of refined watch making almost wiped off the slate by cheap but highly accurate (even compared to chronometer movements) electronic watches. They were caught off-guard and complete underestimated what was going on.