A brief history of quartz (2)

In 1988 engineers at Seiko released the Kinetic, followed by the Auto-Quartz from Switzerland's ETA Now perfectly mastered, Seiko used this technology to power a series of watches that combines the precision of quartz - 2-4 seconds/month - with the appeal of a mechanical calibre Quartz watches were all the rage in 1990 when Seiko released the first ever connected watch, the Seiko Receptor, which used telecom technology of the day to operate a paging function.

At the same time, the Japanese firm was working on watches that would measure time with 1/100th of a second precision Since then Seiko has introduced innovative quartz watches on a regular basis These watches are powered by a conventional quartz calibre that incorporate various sensors and a Bluetooth connection.

Successive generations of smartwatch have followed since the introduction of the first connected watch in 2012 and the first Apple Watch in 2014 The Geneva-based watch brand Frederique Constant presented its Horological Smartwatch, the first analogue quartz watch to include smart features. . Source