Ronda Quartz, ca. 1974

A Motorola chip controls the Watch
In this close-up you can see that a Motorola Time chip controls the beat of
this quartz watch. Also interesting, the earlier Quartz movements look more like
analog movements. The gear bridge is almost identical to a analog watch and you
will not find this on more modern movements anymore. Another representative of
this stage of quartz movement development is the
Orient Quartz on my sales site. A watchmaking friend of mine calls these
movements "early transitional quartz movements".
A little bit later, in the mid 80ies, the quartz movements looked like this, a
Breitling Quartz from ca.
1984