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Elgin start secret electric watch project
Hamilton research manager shows interest in electric watch
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Max Hetzel receives first useful transistors and
files tuning fork patent
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Hamilton Ventura and Van Horn go on sale
LIP files patent from transistor version of R 27
Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I
Beginning of communist insurgency in South Vietnam
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Hamilton Ca. 505 is released
Landeron 4750 comes into production
Bulova Accutron goes on sale
Porta sells LIP R 27 under name Porta-Lip
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Kennedy shot dead in Dallas
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LIP R 50 is released
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Hamilton Electric production ends
Timex M40 released
Porta PUW 1000 released
ESA 9162 Tuning Fork movement released
First quartz watches go on sale in Japan
America lands man on the Moon
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Citizen 7800 Cosmotron goes on sale
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ESA 9158 Dynotron goes on sale
Last US embassy staff evacuated by helicopter in Vietnam
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LIP and Elgin agree to exchange technical information
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LIP R 27 goes on sale
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Landeron 4751 comes into production
Phil Biemiller dies
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UMF 25 goes on sale
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UMF 12 production finishes
Junghans 600 goes on sale
Citizen X-8 Cosmotron goes on sale
First quartz watches tested by Seiko
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ESA 9154 Dynotron goes on sale
Accutron 219 goes on sale
Hamilton Pulsar first watch with no moving parts
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Four million Accutrons sold
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ESA stop production of their tuning fork movements
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Dr. John Van Horn tests Hamilton Prototypes
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Hamilton Cal. 500A is released
Landeron file patent for the future 4750
Max Hetzel moves to New York from Switzerland
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Laco 860, Timex M67 released
Elgin 725 released
LIP R 148 is released
The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Bulova release Accutron 218
Winston Churchill dies
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ESA 9150 Dynotron goes on sale
Seiko 3100 is released
Vietnam War Tet Offensive
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Seiko 3700 is released
Porta PUW 2000 is released
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