Tissot Presents its New Danica Patrick T-Touch Watch

Yoshikazu Akahane, a young engineer of Seiko watches in Japan was overwhelmed by the idea to invent a mechanical timepiece that would provide the same level of accuracy as a quartz watch. During the day the engineer worked upon the development of Seiko quartz watches. It was the Seiko company that started the quartz watch revolution in December 1969, having launched the first quartz watch in the world. It was the analog quartz Astron 35SQ. In the 1970s the Seiko company introduced a series of electronic timepieces that turned the horology world upside-down. A standard quartz watch has a seconds hand that advances once per second. A standard mechanical watch has a seconds hand that makes 5-10 mini-stops per second. The movement of the Spring Drive has no escapement, so its motion is in one direction, and the hands move in the most even and silent way.The watch's case is provided with a soft iron cage that offers protection against the magnetic fields that badly effect the timepiece's accuracy. The IWC watch is secured to the wrist with an integrated stainless steel bracelet, with an amazingly low weight of under 210 g. For those customers, who are not afraid of magnetic effects, the IWC developed one more version of the Big Ingenieur also crafted in stainless steel but without the soft iron inner case. The timepiece is powered by the IWC in-house large 51112 caliber movement equipped with an automatic Pellaton winding system as well as a seven-day power reserve.