Quartz crisis

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The quartz crisis (Switzerland) or quartz revolution (United States, Japan, and other countries) was the upheaval in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and 1980s, that largely replaced mechanical watches around the world.

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