Today! The first electronic wrist watch was sold in New York City in 1960.
One of the main challenges of watchmaking was being studied within a workshop in Garland, Texas, by an engineer named George H Thiess. The late 1960s were dominated by the space race and dreams of steel and glass and neon-hued paradise, of flying vehicles, supper in a pill, and enormous technical breakthroughs. Bergey recounts visiting Tiffany's in New York to examine the public response of his design in an essay submitted to the State Library of Pennsylvania.
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