Beta 21 Watch Module
Beta 21 Watch Module
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- Description
- This battery-powered quartz wristwatch module was designed and assembled at Centre Electronique Horloger (CEH), Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Watches containing this quartz electronic module went on sale under the brand names of sixteen different Swiss watch companies in 1970. These were the first marketed quartz watches made in Switzerland.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- module, quartz wristwatch, with cover
- date made
- ca 1969
- Associated Name
- Forrer, Max P.
- Chapuis, Jean-Francois
- maker
- Communaute d'interet Beta, CEH
- place made
- Switzerland
- Measurements
- overall - module: 1 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 3/8 in; 3.175 cm x 3.81 cm x.9525 cm
- overall - case: 1 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 1/2 in; 3.175 cm x 3.175 cm x 1.27 cm
- overall - business card: 3 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 5.3975 cm
- ID Number
- 2003.0002.01
- catalog number
- 2003.0002.01
- accession number
- 2003.0002
- subject
- Timekeeping
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- Work and Industry: Mechanisms
- Measuring & Mapping
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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