Vintage Digitaire LCD Quartz Solid State CM3 - 307 Swiss Watch 1970s Rare
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Vintage Digitaire LCD Quartz Solid State Golden Years 1970s RARE WORKINGSpeidel 10K GF Band
CM3-307 modelOptel Corp. PrincetonRare Digitaire LCD watch Original box and papers! Fully functional. One of the very earliest digital watches, dating from between 1974-76. In the early 1970's the first LCD watches began to appear on the market, providing far lower power consumption and thus much greater battery life than their forbears, which used LEDs in the display. Inside it has a quartz ...module developed by the Optel corporation of Princeton, New Jersey, one of the first manufacturers of LCD displays. Optel was comissioned to produce modules for a variety of Swiss manufacturers, who at the time did not have the in-house capability to produce their own LCD quartz movements. The watch features two control buttons. The right hand one switches the display between hours/minutes and seconds. While the left hand, recessed one, is for setting the time.
CM3-307 modelOptel Corp. PrincetonRare Digitaire LCD watch Original box and papers! Fully functional. One of the very earliest digital watches, dating from between 1974-76. In the early 1970's the first LCD watches began to appear on the market, providing far lower power consumption and thus much greater battery life than their forbears, which used LEDs in the display. Inside it has a quartz ...module developed by the Optel corporation of Princeton, New Jersey, one of the first manufacturers of LCD displays. Optel was comissioned to produce modules for a variety of Swiss manufacturers, who at the time did not have the in-house capability to produce their own LCD quartz movements. The watch features two control buttons. The right hand one switches the display between hours/minutes and seconds. While the left hand, recessed one, is for setting the time.
