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Watches are no longer just a luxury item in one's life. Watches are something that everyone needs to have without any limitations of age or gender. Anyway, a watch still means a lot for a person.
There have been many changes and advancements in the technologies of watches. In the beginning, the watches were only in the analogue format. The analogue watches are made with the numbered dial and two hands to tell the hour,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the minute. A new type of watch was introduced in the 1970s, which was known as a digital watch. The benefit of a digital watch is that it shows the time in the form of digits displayed on a screen like 06:30 pm. No hands are there to tell the time, neither there is any numbered dial; the time is readily available on the screen.
Electricity is used for power in digital watches, but it works in the same way as a mechanical watch. This electricity for power is generated from a small cell that is placed in the watch. As the digital watch has an electronic time base, therefore it gives the accurate time.
The display screen uses either light emitting diodes (LED) or liquid crystal display (LCD). The watch has a counter, which works as the gearing mechanism in order to keep a track of the time. The counter produces a sequence of numbers from zero to nine,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and displays the appropriate numbers on the screen.
The Pulsar division of Hamilton Watch Company made the first digital watch in 1970. At that time, digital watches were quite expensive, and most people could not afford them. In 1975, digital watches were massively produced, and so came in the reach of the common people. At that time, most digital watches had a red coloured display, and made use of light emitting diodes (LED). In order to see the time,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you had to press down a button.
During the 1980s, the digital watch industry went through drastic changes. The most renowned brand in watches, Seiko, launched a watch with a television screen built in display. Then a renowned Japanese brand, Casio, launched the first digital watch that could translate Japanese words into English, and the other distinguishable feature was that it had a thermometer in it.
The digital watches have gone through many changes over the time. The digital watches now come with built in memory, so that you can store information in them. Some of the digital watches have calculators in them for performing both arithmetic, and scientific functions. The technology is so advanced in the digital watches that in the 1990s, such watches were introduced that allowed to download, and to store data from external sources.
Despite this,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], digital watches are only used for time keeping, and not as luxury items. Digital watches are popular nowadays as they are inexpensive and easier to read. Most of the young people prefer digital watches more.
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