Upheavals caused by quartz watches 1970s

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I was chatting to a watch maker acquaintance and we touch upon buying and selling of vintage mechanical watches, it was interesting learn that pre 1970's watches are a better build condition as...... soon after the invention of the quartz clock, a quartz wristwatch followed. In 1967 the Centre Electornique Horlonger in Switzerland released the first quartz wristwatch prototype. Soon after, a Japanese company released the first commercial quartz wristwatch in 1969.

Economic upheavals caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s, which largely replaced mechanical watches. It caused a decline of the Swiss watchmaking industry, which chose to remain focused on traditional mechanical watches. I also learnt that to remain economical and to compete with quartz watches there was a need to make mechanical watches in a manner that was of lesser quality than them that had came before...Id be interested to learn more of Rolex's involvement with quartz movements prior to googling it.