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 valiko75 rated 7 months ago -
From the page: "I am always amazed at how long it took for Jump Hour ("jumps") watches to make a big push onto the watch scene - despite being first introduced in some crude forms during the early 1800s. The mechanical "digital" had it's only real flurry of popularity...
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- valiko75 rated 7 months ago
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From the page: "I am always amazed at how long it took for Jump Hour ("jumps") watches to make a big push onto the watch scene - despite being first introduced in some crude forms during the early 1800s. The mechanical "digital" had it's only real flurry of popularity right after the electronic readout digital watches, such as LED and LCD, appeared around 1972. The old line manufacturers wanted to compete against the electronic digitals, but they were all tooled up for mechanicals! Bad for them - good for us. We now have a large number of very high quality jumps from the early '70 that have survived the years, partly due to electronic digitals drawing away enough of the market share that these watches just sat."
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