The high-tech world of old-world watches
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
GLANCE at any technology blog, and all the innovation in the world of timekeeping seems to be captured by two words: smart watches.
Almost every week new designs emerge from electronics giants such as Samsung and Sony, Kickstarted minnows like Pebble and Martian, and even the odd pop star (will.i.am says his smart watch will go on sale this summer). So what new product is Swatch— which in 1983 transformed dull digital watches into must-have fashion accessories, thus saving Switzerland’s watch industry—now launching? A self-winding mechanical watch it calls Sistem51.