The new product was cheaper and more efficient. By the mid-1970s, it was priced at US$3 instead of US$50.
There is a vintage watch shop in the Arcade building on Raffles Place. It has been around since the 1950s. The shop sells some of the original quartz watches. These watches were revolutionary in the 1970s.
Quartz watches were much more accurate than the mechanical watches. You could time sprints using wristwatches. Doctors could time experiments with precision.
