Digital Wrist Watches - Kid's, Military, Sport in Ladies' and Men's Fashion Styles

Digital Wristwatches - Because they lack a striking mechanism, such as a bell or gong to announce the passage of time, they are properly designated as timepieces, rather than clocks.

Since the advent of electronic watches that incorporate small computers, digital displays have also been available. A digital display simply shows the time as a number, e.g., 10:30 AM instead of a short hand pointing towards the number 10 and a long hand pointing towards the number 6 on a dial.

Cheaper electronics permitted the popularization of the digital watch in the second half of the 20th century. They were seen as the great new thing. The first digital watch, a Pulsar prototype in 1970, was developed jointly by Hamilton Watch Company and Electro-Data. A retail version of the Pulsar was put on sale on April 4th 1972. It had a red light-emitting diode (LED) display. Another early digital watch innovator, Roger Riehl's Synchronar Mark 1, provided an LED display and used solar cells to power the internal nicad batteries. Most watches with LED displays required that the user press a button to see the time displayed for a few seconds, because LEDs used so much power that they could not be kept operating continuously. Watches with LED displays were popular for the next few years, but soon the LED displays were superseded by liquid crystal displays (LCDs), which used less battery power. The first LCD watch with a six-digit LCD was the 1973 Seiko 06LC, although various forms of early LCD watches with a four-digit display were marketed as early as 1972 including the 1972 Gruen Teletime LCD Watch.

Almost all watches with digital displays today are in the category of simple timekeeping watches, and they are particularly popular with "geek watches" that incorporate a very large number of features besides simply showing the date and time.

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