H-SPOT - Electronic Watches

Electronic Watches

A-Z A complete listing of all watches shown in alphabetical order.

Mechanical Watches powered by a traditional, mechanical movement.

Quartz Watches with battery-powered quartz movements.

Electric/Electronic Battery-powered watches with electro-mechanical, electric or electronic movements.

British Watches made in Great Britain.

Chinese Watches made in China.

Russian Watches made in the Soviet Union or modern-day Russia.

Japanese Watches made in Japan.

American Watches made in the USA or by/for American companies.

Military/Space Military and Space related watches including homage and commemorative pieces.

Pilot/Aviator Watches intended for pilots or with some aviation connection.

Sport/Diver Watches associated with a sport or a particular sporting event or personality.

Pocket Pocket watches.

Movements For those interested in what makes watches tick! A selection of watch movement pictures.

Links A selection of links to the interesting websites of other collectors.

Bulova Accutron Astronaut:
Introduced in the early 60's, the Bulova Accutron was the world's first electronic wristwatch. Utilising the high frequency vibrations of a tiny "tuning fork" rather than the oscillations of a mechanical balance wheel to regulate timing, the Accutron achieved extraordinary levels of accuracy. Accutrons were worn on several of the early NASA space missions and were used in some of the onboard timing mechanisms. This watch is an Accutron Astronaut from 1966. The Astronaut was modelled by NASA Astronaut Scott Carpenter in Paris Match magazine and was featured in the film Seven Days in May worn by Kirk Douglas in the role of Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey. Accutron 214 Tuning Fork movement.

Hamilton Electronic:
"Electronic" watches pre-date quartz technology. They're similar to mechanical watches but, instead of being powered by a spring, the balance wheel is driven by an electro magnet powered by a battery. You can see a picture of the 13 jewel electronic movement here.

Luch Electronic:
Luch (which I think means "beam") produced its first watches in 1956 at the Minsk Watch Plant in what is now Belarus. I would guess that this watch was made sometime in the 1970's. It employs one of the very few Soviet produced electronic balance wheel movements; in this case the 18 jewel Cal. 3055.