A digital watch is a watch where the time is shown by digits, rather than by the position of the watch’s mechanical hands moving over the watch’s dial. On the other hand, digital watches frequently have dot matrix displays.
The first digital watch was created by the Hamilton Watch Company, which started measuring time at 12.01 New York Time, on May 6, 1970. This was a Pulsar prototype watch from Hamilton’s Pulsar division, and was jointly developed with the company Electro-Data. This watch was inspired by a watch the Hamilton Watch Company had made for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, just two years before, in 1968. Soon, other watch companies started creating their own versions of digital watches. These digital watches created had the technology to leverage solar energy for powering the watch and featured LED displays. Over the years, digital watches not only showed the hours, minutes and seconds, but also the yearly calendar. Till the mid- seventies, digital watches were expensive. Prices fell considerable when Texas Instruments started selling LED watches in plastic cases.
Digital watches have seen radical advancement in technology, over the decades. Today, advanced digital watches have built-in thermometers and scientific calculators. Some digital watches are equipped to download and store data from a computer, while others can translate words fed into them, in several languages. Even as a lot of users buy these watches for their unique features, the most popular digital watches are still the basic time-keeping watches.
Standard features of a digital watch includes an LCD display, a daily alarm, an hourly time signal, an auto calendar, a stopwatch and a countdown timer. Some watches combine the analogue and digital watches to give a unique dual-display. Digital watches are available in all different coloured dials and straps.
The popular brands of digital watches include Seiko, Casio and Timex. A standard digital watch is far less expensive than an analogue watch. This fact, combined with the trendy appeal of a digital watch, makes it a good fashion accessory for the youth. Digital watches are also popular among children, and among all those who desire convenient and low-maintenance watches.
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