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Q.8 Watches with Radio or Television

1	1967	Continental Telephone Supply Co. of New York, launches a watch with a built-in radio transmitter, which could be used to page somebody with a receiver within a range of twenty metres. Commercial production unknown.
2	1977	Asia International Electronics starts production of a 'Radiowatch' with LED's.
3	1981	Patent application for a radio pulse receiver with a built-in speaker by the Sony Corp. of Japan (Patent no. 67493/81 Japan). No commercial production.
4	1982	Cycle Time Electronics Ltd, Hong Kong, starts producing 3500 'Radio Watches' a day, equipped for use with earphones.
5	1982	Trafalgar Watch Co. of Great Britain markets a radio-watch for the AM band. Headphones could be plugged into the watch.
6	1988	Asia International Electronics starts the production of an apparatus that is watch and radio at the same time.
7	1987	The 'Piratron', made by Functional B Electronics Co.Ltd, Hong Kong, reaches the market.
8	1987	The Casio TM 100 with a built-in microphone, transmitter, receiver and a range of 60 metres, is issued.
9	1990	In June, the Seiko 'Receptor' watch could receive a small message from the FM band and display this message on the LCD screen.
10	1991	In December, the introduction in Switzerland of two models of the 'Swatch Pager' takes place. The 'Tone Only Pager': when the telephone number of a Pager Service is dialled, the Pager will emit four distinctive signals which correspond with four phone-numbers. So each phone number belongs to a specific person. The 'Numeric Pager' can display the number of the caller.
20	1982	December 23rd hallmarks the day that Seiko introduces to the world the first 'Television Watch' (cal. T001 and T002). It has a LCD video panel, 17 mm x 25 mm with 32,000 pixels, a large scale integrated circuit (LSI), required two batteries of 3 Volts each and came together with a headphone, in which the antenna was located. The weight of the watch is just 190 gram and receiving VHF and UHF as well as FM-stereo is possible. This watch was produced for the NTSC system, available solely in the USA and in Japan. The watch was only produced in 1982 and 1983. The production was limited to 13,000 watches.

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