Personal Devices · Recorded milestone
Battery wristwatch
Recorded year1957
A wristwatch powered by a small battery runs for a year without winding and keeps better time than a mainspring.
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Led to
- Quartz watchRecorded · 1969enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.