The allure of the tick tock: back in the 1970s, when the quartz watch was introduced, mechanical watches were a dying breed. After all, if quartz watches were less expensive to produce and kept more accurate time, what need was there for a mechanical watc...
The Rolex quartz caliber for ladies’ watches (Caliber 6035) with sweep seconds hand and date disk had the exact same dimensions as the Ladies’ Datejust (19.79 mm by 5.00 mm). The frequency of the 32 kHz Micro Crystal tuning fork quartz resonator was fine-tuned with a trimmer. The CMOS ...