Object Details
- Associated Name
- Forrer, Max P.
- Chapuis, Jean-Francois
- Communaute d'interet Beta, CEH
- Description
- This battery-powered quartz wristwatch module was designed and assembled at Centre Electronique Horloger (CEH), Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Watches containing this quartz electronic module went on sale under the brand names of sixteen different Swiss watch companies in 1970. These were the first marketed quartz watches made in Switzerland.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1969
- ID Number
- 2003.0002.01
- catalog number
- 2003.0002.01
- accession number
- 2003.0002
- Object Name
- module, quartz wristwatch, with cover
- Measurements
- overall - module: 1 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 3/8 in; 3.175 cm x 3.81 cm x .9525 cm
- overall - case: 1 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 1/2 in; 3.175 cm x 3.175 cm x 1.27 cm
- overall - business card: 3 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 5.3975 cm
- place made
- Switzerland
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mechanisms
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Timekeeping
- Record ID
- nmah_1200684
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-6fd7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
