Seiko
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Seiko's heritage page: "On December 25th 1969, Seiko released a watch that would revolutionize the watch industry overnight. It was the Quartz Astron, the world's first quartz wristwatch."[1]Seiko put the Quartz Astron on sale on 25 December 1969, the first quartz wristwatch, at 450,000 yen; it began the quartz revolution that upended Swiss watchmaking.
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