WW’s Vintage LED Week #3 1970s Benrus Techni-Quartz Digital Watch with Red LED Crystal Display
1970s Benrus Techni-Quartz Digital Watch with Red LED Crystal Display
Case: 35.4mm wide; 13.2mm thick; 42.0mm lug to lug
Gold-plated base metal case and bezel (brushed); stainless steel case back; acrylic crystal
Original gold-plated signed Stainless Steel bracelet (19.0mm lugs, 24.5mm at the lugs to 15.0mm at the clasp-brushed)
Module: Benrus Techni-Quartz with stick LED display; Benrus’ simple answer to a quartz movement during the “Great Quartz Watch Race”, in which they took their traditional Swiss ETA movement (used in their mechanical watches) and “modified” it to accomodate a Motorola of USA electronic module. Early versions retained the slots where the mainspring and balance of a mechanical watch would normally be located.
Demand button at 2 o’clock: 1st press-hours/minutes, 1st press continued-flashing seconds; demand button at 8 o’clock: 1st press-month/date; set button at 3 o’clock: time/date set
Last image credited to Joe Haupt, https://flickr.com/photos/51764518@N02/16207433413
I’m known to locate certain things from time to time.
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