Beta 21 Watch Module
date: label: date made
content: ca 1969
name: label: Associated Name
content: Forrer, Max P.
label: Associated Name
content: Chapuis, Jean-Francois
label: maker
content: Communaute d'interet Beta, CEH
notes: label: Description
content: This battery-powered quartz wristwatch module was designed and assembled at Centre Electronique Horloger (CEH), Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Watches containing this quartz electronic module went on sale under the brand names of sixteen different Swiss watch companies in 1970. These were the first marketed quartz watches made in Switzerland.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Switzerland
topic: label: Subject
content: Timekeeping
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0002.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0002.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: module, quartz wristwatch, with cover
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall - module: 1 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 3/8 in; 3.175 cm x 3.81 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - case: 1 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 1/2 in; 3.175 cm x 3.175 cm x 1.27 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - business card: 3 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 5.3975 cm