Watches
How Swatch Started a Revolution
In the 1980s, quartz watches swerved from technology to fashion-first.
Originally published by Joe Thompson on Hodinkee.
In the 1970s, when Seiko became the world’s top watch brand on the strength of its revolutionary quartz technology, its New York ad agency created a brilliant campaign for it. Its tagline said simply: “Someday all watches will be made this way.”