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Some of the biggest companies in tech are fighting with the U.S. Government over questionable practices in the mysterious world of military contracts, with a lucrative prize at the end: a hefty $10 billion, multi-year cloud-computing deal. At stake is a highly publicized but controversial contract to provide cloud services for the Department of Defense, dubbed Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI. The contract received interest from the top cloud-computing players, many of which submitted bids for the deal: Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Oracle Corp.

The plans call for the JEDI program to become the key component for the DOD’s enterprise cloud strategy, the DOD’s chief information officer, Dana Deasy, said in a letter to potential cloud partners. The JEDI cloud will serve as the infrastructure spanning from the DOD offices at the Pentagon to soldiers in the field. As opposed to a vast set of incompatible databases that they have in the field now, the deal envisions a unified cloud providing access to data through a range of devices to make decisions on the fly, using machine learning. While the goal is admirable, the process and plans have been questioned by some contenders.

Amid the acronyms and the mind-numbing jargon of both the DOD and the cloud industry, at least two cloud rivals, with the support of have said that the request for proposal, or RFP, process appears to be flawed because it is going against industry practices by seeking only one cloud provider. They also believe that the language of the program appears to be tailored to one company alone: Amazon’s AWS. “Of particular concern are the ‘gating,’ or restricting, provisions and structure of the proposed contract, that seem to be tailored to one specific contractor,” wrote U.S. Steve Womack. R-Ark., and Tom Cole, R-Okla., in a letter in October asking the U.S. Inspector General to look into the JEDI cloud-program process, without naming Amazon specifically. The investigation is ongoing and officials did not respond to requests for comment, possibly due to the government shutdown.

Oracle and IBM have both filed protests with the General Accounting Office. Oracle went as far as filing a lawsuit in early December, after the GOA denied its protest. “Unfortunately, JEDI, as outlined in the final solicitation, would not provide the strongest possible foundation for the 21st-century battlefield,” wrote Sam Gordy, general manager of IBM’s federal business. Many fears about the plans focus on the use of just a single cloud-computing vendor for the length of the deal, which will span up to a decade.

The government’s request for a single provider of cloud services is a risky strategy that could make the DOD cloud both easier to hack and vulnerable in the event of power emergencies or an actual war, both IBM and Oracle have argued. The argument is that using a single company to provide cloud computing and storage functions could backfire in the event of a power outage, and would give hackers one system to focus on.

It is also not an industry best practice — most companies are moving toward a multi-cloud approach. “What the government is doing with JEDI is not in sync with what the commercial world is doing,” said Brian Johnson, co-founder and CEO of Divvy Cloud, an Arlington, Va.-based venture-backed startup that focuses on cloud security. “It is just a really bad idea to pick just one provider.” He added that all cloud providers have outages and noted that the need for two service providers has been a basic disaster-recovery practice since the early days of the data center.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud also believes that a multi-cloud approach is best, and did not bid for the job, in part because of the single-source requirement. In a statement, a Google spokeswoman said, “Had the JEDI contract been open to multiple vendors, we would have submitted a compelling solution for portions of it. Google Cloud believes that a multi-cloud approach is in the best interest of government agencies, because it allows them to choose the right cloud for the right workload.” Google also received protests from some of its employees who were ethically opposed to the contract.

“We couldn’t be assured that it would align with our AI Principles,” the Google spokeswoman said, “and second, we determined that there were portions of the contract that were out of scope with our current government certifications.” Maribel Lopez, founder and principal analyst at Lopez Research, said the single-source contract makes sense in this scenario, but only for now. “In time, DOD will have two clouds, but I doubt they’ll start that way,” she said.

“The real issue is the ‘up to 10 years’ part. One cloud for 10 years is risky and probably means that the government will take way too long to migrate to the cloud.

So as the DOD’s current contract stands, it is an issue.” But the DOD is instead adhering to the requirements set out in a congressional report last year, which said that the “use of multiple clouds would inhibit pooling data in a single cloud (i.e., a ‘data lake’), limiting the effectiveness of machine learning.” That report also said if the DOD pursued a multi-award approach, under current acquisition laws, it would prevent the department from rapidly delivering the new capabilities. Currently, the DOD maintains a decentralized system, with more than 500 separate public and private clouds, for both non-classified and secret data. In Oracle’s 97-page bid complaint filed in the U.S. Department of Federal Claims, a federal court that hears monetary claims against the government, it details how it believes the favoritism toward Amazon evolved in the government’s process. Among other issues, Oracle’s complaint details the career path of one high-ranking executive named Deap Ubhi, who is currently general manager at AWS in San Francisco and previously worked at the DOD’s Defense Digital Service, or DDS. In his job at the DDS, Ubhi — who previously worked at AWS before joining the government— was selected as the JEDI cloud manager. While he was at the DOD, Oracle contends that he sowed the seeds of favoritism toward Amazon.

“Ubhi attacked anyone who took on multi-cloud positions or advocated non-AWS solutions,” Oracle said in its complaint, based on emails and Slack messages it had received through the discovery process. Oracle also noted that his conduct raised two separate conflict-of-interest issues: Did AWS and Ubhi create an appearance of impropriety or bias in the procurement, and did AWS create a further conflict by engaging in employment discussions with Ubhi while he was employed at DDS? It noted that during his time at DDS, AWS actively negotiated with Ubhi to buy a startup he was working on and Ubhi met with other potential cloud providers for the JEDI program. A spokesman for Amazon’s AWS declined to comment on the litigation and the contract. But the conflict-of-interest question has already been addressed by the DOD.

A modern wristwatch A watch is a intended to be carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep working despite the motions caused by the person's activities. A wristwatch is designed to be worn around the, attached by a or other type of. A is designed for a person to carry in a. The study of timekeeping is known as. Watches progressed in the 17th century from spring-powered clocks, which appeared as early as the 14th century.

During most of its history the watch was a mechanical device, driven by, powered by winding a, and keeping time with an oscillating. These are called. In the 1960s the electronic was invented, which was powered by a and kept time with a vibrating.

By the 1980s the quartz watch had taken over most of the market from the mechanical watch. Historically, this is called the.

Developments in the 2010s include, which are elaborate computer-like electronic devices designed to be worn on a wrist. They generally incorporate timekeeping functions, but these are only a small subset of the smartwatch's facilities. In general, modern watches often display the day, date, month and year.

For mechanical watches, various extra features called ', such as moon-phase displays and the different types of, are sometimes included. Most electronic quartz watches, on the other hand, include time-related features such as, and functions. Furthermore, some modern smartwatches even incorporate, and technology or have heart-rate monitoring capabilities, and some of them use technology to regularly correct the time. Today, most watches in the market that are inexpensive and medium-priced, used mainly for timekeeping, have quartz. However, expensive watches, valued more for their elaborate craftsmanship, aesthetic appeal and glamorous design than for simple timekeeping, often have traditional mechanical movements, even though they are less accurate and more expensive than electronic ones.

As of November 2018, the is the, which is a mechanical pocket watch, reaching a final price of 24 million US dollars (23,237,000 ) in on November 11th, 2014. A watch drawn in, 1737 The British had predominated in watch manufacture for much of the 17th and 18th centuries, but maintained a system of production that was geared towards high-quality products for the elite. Although there was an attempt to modernise clock manufacture with techniques and the application of duplicating tools and machinery by the British Watch Company in 1843, it was in the that this system took off. Started a factory in 1851 in that used, and by 1861 it was running a successful enterprise incorporated as the. Wristwatch. A so-called, it is the first transparent watch, c. The movement is fitted with a cylinder escapement.

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A of a watch is the mechanism that measures the passage of time and displays the current time (and possibly other information including date, month and day). Movements may be entirely mechanical, entirely electronic (potentially with no moving parts), or they might be a blend of both. Most watches intended mainly for timekeeping today have electronic movements, with mechanical hands on the indicating the time. Mechanical. Main article: Compared to electronic movements, mechanical watches are less accurate, often with errors of seconds per day, and they are sensitive to position, temperature and magnetism. They are also costly to produce, require regular maintenance and adjustments, and are more prone to failures.

Nevertheless, the craftsmanship of mechanical watches still attracts interest from part of the watch-buying public, especially among the watch collectors. Are designed to leave the mechanism visible for aesthetic purposes. A mechanical movement uses an mechanism to control and limit the unwinding and winding parts of a spring, converting what would otherwise be a simple unwinding into a controlled and periodic energy release. A mechanical movement also uses a together with the (also known as a hairspring) to control the motion of the gear system of the watch in a manner analogous to the of a.

The, an optional part for mechanical movements, is a rotating frame for the escapement, which is used to cancel out or reduce the effects of bias to the timekeeping. Due to the complexity of designing a tourbillon, they are very expensive, and only found in prestigious watches.

The (called the Roskopf movement after its inventor, ), which is a cheaper version of the fully levered movement, was manufactured in huge quantities by many Swiss manufacturers as well as by, until it was replaced by quartz movements. Tuning-fork watches use a type of electromechanical movement. Introduced by in 1960, they use a tuning fork with a precise frequency (most often 360 ) to drive a mechanical watch. The task of converting electronically pulsed fork vibration into rotary movements is done via two tiny jeweled fingers, called pawls. Were rendered obsolete when electronic quartz watches were developed. Were cheaper to produce besides being more accurate. Seiko 5 Automatic Watch 21 Jewels A self-winding or automatic watch is one that rewinds the mainspring of a mechanical movement by the natural motions of the wearer's body.

The first self-winding mechanism was invented for pocket watches in 1770 by Abraham-Louis Perrelet, but the first ', or 'automatic', wristwatch was the invention of a British watch repairer named in 1923. This type of watch winds itself without requiring any special action by the wearer.

It uses an eccentric weight, called a winding rotor, which rotates with the movement of the wearer's wrist. The back-and-forth motion of the winding rotor couples to a to wind the mainspring automatically. Self-winding watches usually can also be wound manually to keep them running when not worn or if the wearer's wrist motions are inadequate to keep the watch wound. In April 2014 the Swatch Group launched the sistem51 wristwatch. It has a purely mechanical movement consisting of only 51 parts, including a novel self-winding mechanism with a transparent oscillating weight.

So far, it is the only mechanical movement manufactured entirely on a fully automated assembly line. The low parts count and the automated assembly make it an inexpensive mechanical Swiss watch, which can be considered a successor to Roskopf movements, although of higher quality. Electronic. Quartz Movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969 (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Inv. 2010-006) The first quartz watch to enter production was the, which hit the shelves on 25 December 1969, swiftly followed by the Swiss Beta 21, and then a year later the prototype of one of the world's most accurate wristwatches to date: the. Since the technology having been developed by contributions from Japanese, American and Swiss, nobody could patent the whole movement of the quartz wristwatch, thus allowing other manufacturers to participate in the rapid growth and development of the quartz watch market. This ended—in less than a decade—almost 100 years of dominance by the mechanical wristwatch legacy.

Modern quartz movements are produced in very large quantities, and even the cheapest wristwatches typically have quartz movements. Whereas mechanical movements can typically be off by several seconds a day, an inexpensive quartz movement in a child's wristwatch may still be accurate to within half a second per day—ten times more accurate than a mechanical movement.

After a consolidation of the mechanical watch industry in Switzerland during the 1970s, mass production of quartz wristwatches took off under the leadership of the of companies, a Swiss conglomerate with vertical control of the production of Swiss watches and related products. For quartz wristwatches, subsidiaries of Swatch manufacture (Renata), oscillators (, now Micro Crystal AG) and integrated circuits (Ebauches Electronic SA, renamed ). The launch of the new SWATCH brand in 1983 was marked by bold new styling, design, and marketing. Today, the Swatch Group maintains its position as the world's largest watch company. 's efforts to combine the quartz and mechanical movements bore fruit after 20 years of research, leading to the introduction of the, first in a limited domestic market production in 1999 and to the world in September 2005. The Spring Drive keeps time within quartz standards without the use of a battery, using a traditional mechanical gear train powered by a spring, without the need for a balance wheel either. In 2010, Miyota of introduced a newly developed movement that uses a 3 pronged quartz crystal that was exclusively produced for to be used in the Precisionist or Accutron II line, a new type of quartz watch with ultra-high frequency (262.144 kHz) which is claimed to be accurate to +/- 10 seconds a year and has a smooth sweeping second hand rather than one that jumps each second.

Radio time signal watches are a type of electronic quartz watch which synchronizes its time with an external such as in, time signals from navigation satellites, the German signal in Europe, in the US, and others. Movements of this type may—among others—synchronize the time of day and the date, the status and the state of (on or off). However, other than the radio receiver, these watches are normal quartz watches in all other aspects. Electronic watches require electricity as a power source, and some mechanical movements and hybrid electronic-mechanical movements also require electricity. Usually, the electricity is provided by a replaceable.

The first use of electrical power in watches was as a substitute for the mainspring, to remove the need for winding. The first electrically powered watch, the Hamilton Electric 500, was released in 1957 by the of. Watch batteries (strictly speaking cells, as a battery is composed of multiple cells) are specially designed for their purpose. They are very small and provide tiny amounts of power continuously for very long periods (several years or more). In most cases, replacing the battery requires a trip to a watch-repair shop or watch dealer; this is especially true for watches that are water-resistant, as special tools and procedures are required for the watch to remain water-resistant after battery replacement. Silver-oxide and lithium batteries are popular today; mercury batteries, formerly quite common, are no longer used, for environmental reasons. Cheap batteries may be alkaline, of the same size as silver-oxide cells but providing shorter life.

Rechargeable batteries are used in some. Some electronic watches are powered by the movement of the wearer. For instance, Seiko's use the motion of the wearer's arm: turning a rotating weight which causes a tiny to supply power to charge a rechargeable battery that runs the watch.

The concept is similar to that of self-winding spring movements, except that electrical power is generated instead of mechanical spring tension. Are powered by light. A on the face of the watch converts light to electricity, which is used to charge a.

The movement of the watch draws its power from the rechargeable battery or capacitor. As long as the watch is regularly exposed to fairly strong light (such as sunlight), it never needs a battery replacement.

Some models need only a few minutes of sunlight to provide weeks of energy (as in the Citizen ). Some of the early solar watches of the 1970s had innovative and unique designs to accommodate the array of solar cells needed to power them (Synchronar, Nepro, Sicura and some models by Cristalonic, Alba, Seiko, and Citizen). As the decades progressed and the efficiency of the solar cells increased while the power requirements of the movement and display decreased, solar watches began to be designed to look like other conventional watches. A rarely used power source is the temperature difference between the wearer's arm and the surrounding environment (as applied in the Thermo). Display Analog. Casio AE12 LCA (liquid-crystal-analog) watch Traditionally, watches have displayed the time in analog form, with a numbered dial upon which are mounted at least a rotating hour hand and a longer, rotating minute hand.

Many watches also incorporate a third hand that shows the current second of the current minute. Watches powered by quartz usually have a second hand that snaps every second to the next marker. Watches powered by a mechanical movement appears to have a gliding second hand, although it is actually not gliding; the hand merely moves in smaller steps, typically 1/5 of a second, corresponding to the beat (half period) of the balance wheel. In some escapements (for example the duplex escapement), the hand advances every two beats (full period) of the balance wheel, typically 1/2 second in those watches, or even every four beats (two periods, 1 second), in the double duplex escapement. A truly gliding second hand is achieved with the tri-synchro regulator of watches. All of the hands are normally mechanical, physically rotating on the dial, although a few watches have been produced with 'hands' that are simulated by a.

Analog display of the time is nearly universal in watches sold as jewelry or collectibles, and in these watches, the range of different styles of hands, numbers, and other aspects of the analog dial is very broad. In watches sold for timekeeping, analog display remains very popular, as many people find it easier to read than digital display; but in timekeeping watches the emphasis is on clarity and accurate reading of the time under all conditions (clearly marked digits, easily visible hands, large watch faces, etc.). They are specifically designed for the left wrist with the stem (the knob used for changing the time) on the right side of the watch; this makes it easy to change the time without removing the watch from the wrist. This is the case if one is right-handed and the watch is worn on the left wrist (as is traditionally done). If one is left-handed and wears the watch on the right wrist, one has to remove the watch from the wrist to reset the time or to wind the watch.

Analog watches, as well as clocks, are often marketed showing a display time of approximately 1:50 or 10:10. This creates a visually pleasing smile-like face on upper half of the watch, in addition to enclosing the manufacturer's name. Digital displays often show a time of 12:08, where the increase in the number of active segments or pixels gives a positive feeling. Tactile , a Swiss luxury watchmaker, makes the Silen-T wristwatch with a touch-sensitive face that vibrates to help the user to tell time eyes-free. The bezel of the watch features raised bumps at each hour mark; after briefly touching the face of the watch, the wearer runs a finger around the bezel clockwise. When the finger reaches the bump indicating the hour, the watch vibrates continuously, and when the finger reaches the bump indicating the minute, the watch vibrates intermittently.

Eone Timepieces, Washington D.C.-based company, launched its first tactile analog wristwatch, the 'Bradley', on 11 July 2013 on the website. The device is primarily designed for sight-impaired users, who can use the watch's two ball bearings to determine the time, but it is also suitable for general use. The watch features raised marks at each hour and two moving, magnetically attached ball bearings.

Resident evil 6 skidrow download. One ball bearing, on the edge of the watch, indicates the hour, while the other, on the face, indicates the minute. Digital A digital display shows the time as a number, e.g., 12:08 instead of a shorthand pointing towards the number 12 and a long hand 8/60 of the way around the dial.

The digits are usually shown as a. The first digital mechanical pocket watches appeared in the late 19th century. In the 1920s, the first digital mechanical wristwatches appeared.

The first digital electronic watch, a LED prototype in 1970, was developed jointly by and Electro-Data, founded by George H. John Bergey, the head of Hamilton's Pulsar division, said that he was inspired to make a digital timepiece by the then-futuristic digital clock that Hamilton themselves made for the 1968 science fiction film. On 4 April 1972, the Pulsar was finally ready, made in 18-carat gold and sold for $2,100. It had a red (LED) display. Digital LED watches were very expensive and out of reach to the common consumer until 1975, when started to mass-produce LED watches inside a plastic case. These watches, which first retailed for only $20, reduced to $10 in 1976, saw Pulsar lose $6 million and the Pulsar brand sold to. An early LED watch that was rather problematic was made and sold by British company in 1975.

This was only sold for a few years, as production problems and returned (faulty) product forced the company to cease production. Most watches with LED displays required that the user press a button to see the time displayed for a few seconds, because LEDs used so much power that they could not be kept operating continuously. Usually, the LED display color would be red. Watches with LED displays were popular for a few years, but soon the LED displays were superseded by (LCDs), which used less battery power and were much more convenient in use, with the display always visible and no need to push a button before seeing the time. Only in darkness, you had to press a button to light the display with a tiny light bulb, later illuminating LEDs. The first LCD watch with a six-digit LCD was the 1973 06LC, although various forms of early LCD watches with a four-digit display were marketed as early as 1972 including the 1972 Gruen Teletime LCD Watch, and the Cox Electronic Systems Quarza.

In Switzerland, Ebauches Electronic SA presented a prototype eight-digit LCD wristwatch showing time and date at the MUBA Fair, Basle, in March 1973, using a LCD manufactured by, Switzerland, which became the supplier of LCDs to for the CASIOTRON watch in 1974. A problem with Liquid Crystal Displays is that they use.

If, for example, the user is wearing polarized sunglasses, the watch may be difficult to read because the plane of polarization of the display is roughly perpendicular to that of the glasses. If the light that illuminates the display is polarized, for example if it comes from a blue sky, the display may be difficult or impossible to read. From the 1980s onward, digital watch technology vastly improved. In 1982 Seiko produced the Seiko TV Watch that had a television screen built in, and Casio produced a digital watch with a thermometer as well as another that could translate 1,500 Japanese words into English.

In 1985, Casio produced the CFX-400 scientific calculator watch. In 1987 Casio produced a watch that could dial your telephone number and Citizen revealed one that would react to your voice. In 1995 Timex released a watch which allowed the wearer to download and store data from a computer to their wrist.

Some watches, such as the, feature displays. Since their apex during the late 1980s to mid-1990s high technology fad, digital watches have mostly become simpler, less expensive time pieces with little variety between models.

An illuminated watch face, using tritium Many watches have displays that are illuminated, so they can be used in darkness. Various methods have been used to achieve this. Mechanical watches often have on their hands and hour marks. In the mid-20th century, radioactive material was often incorporated in the paint, so it would continue to glow without any exposure to light. Was often used but produced small amounts of radiation outside the watch that might have been hazardous. Was used as a replacement, since the radiation it produces has such low energy that it cannot penetrate a watch glass. However, tritium is expensive—it has to be made in a —and it has a of only about 12 years so the paint remains luminous for only a few years.

Nowadays, tritium is used in specialized watches, e.g., for military purposes (See ). For other purposes, luminous paint is sometimes used on analog displays, but no radioactive material is contained in it. This means that the display glows soon after being exposed to light and quickly fades.

Watches that incorporate batteries often have the electric illumination of their displays. However, lights consume far more power than electronic watch movements. To conserve the battery, the light is activated only when the user presses a button. Usually, the light remains lit for a few seconds after the button is released, which allows the user to move the hand out of the way. Digital LCD wristwatch Casio type F-E10 with electroluminescent backlighting.

In some early digital watches, displays were used, which could be read as easily in darkness as in daylight. The user had to press a button to light up the LEDs, which meant that the watch could not be read without the button being pressed, even in full daylight. In some types of watches, small lamps or LEDs illuminate the display, which is not intrinsically luminous. These tend to produce very non-uniform illumination. Incandescent lamps are very wasteful of electricity.

Other watches use material to produce uniform illumination of the background of the display, against which the hands or digits can be seen. Speech synthesis watches are available, intended for the. They speak the time out loud at the press of a button. This has the disadvantage of disturbing others nearby or at least alerting the non- that the wearer is checking the time. Tactile watches are preferred to avoid this awkwardness, but talking watches are preferred for those who are not confident in their ability to read a tactile watch reliably.

Handedness Wristwatches with analog displays generally have a small knob, called the crown, that can be used to adjust the time and, in mechanical watches, wind the spring. Almost always, the crown is located on the right-hand side of the watch so it can be worn of the left wrist for a right-handed individual. This makes it inconvenient to use if the watch is being worn on the right wrist. Some manufacturers offer 'left-hand drive', aka 'destro', configured watches which move the crown to the left side making wearing the watch easier for left-handed individuals. A rarer configuration is the bullhead watch. Bullhead watches are generally, but not exclusively,.

The configuration moves the crown and chronograph pushers to the top of the watch. Bullheads are commonly wristwatch chronographs that are intended to be used as stopwatches off the wrist.

Examples are the Citizen Bullhead Change Timer and the Omega Seamaster Bullhead. Digital watches generally have push-buttons that can be used to make adjustments.

These are usually equally easy to use on either wrist. Functions.

Timex Datalink USB Dress edition from 2003 with a dot matrix display; the Invasion video game is on the screen Many computerized wristwatches have been developed, but none have had long-term sales success, because they have awkward due to the tiny screens and buttons, and a short battery life. As miniaturized electronics became cheaper, watches have been developed containing, a using both hands to show the N/S direction,. A few show and other celestial phenomena. In the early 1980s marketed a watch with a television in it. Such watches have also had the reputation as unsightly and thus mainly toys. Several companies have however attempted to develop a contained in a wristwatch (see also ). Electronic sports watches, combining timekeeping with GPS and/or, address the general market and have the potential for commercial success (, Garmin Vivofit, Epson, announced model of Touch series ).

Have analog displays with raised bumps around the face to allow blind users to tell the time. Their digital equivalents use to speak the time on command. Fashion Wristwatches and antique pocket watches are often appreciated as or as works of rather than just as timepieces. This has created several different markets for wristwatches, ranging from very inexpensive but accurate watches (intended for no other purpose than telling the correct time) to extremely expensive watches that serve mainly as personal adornment or as examples of high achievement in miniaturization and precision mechanical engineering. Traditionally, men's dress watches appropriate for (business), and attire are, thin, simple, and plain, but increasingly rugged, or sports watches are considered by some to be acceptable for such attire.

Some dress watches have a on the crown and many women's dress watches have on the face, or bracelet. Some are made entirely of faceted. Many fashions and offer a variety of less-expensive, trendy, ' watches (usually for women), many of which are similar in quality to basic quartz timepieces but which feature bolder designs.

In the 1980s, the Swiss company hired graphic designers to redesign a new annual collection of non-repairable watches. Trade in, which mimic expensive brand-name watches, constitutes an estimated US$1 billion market per year. Astronaut wears the Timex Ironman Triathlon Datalink model 78401 during. Through the 1960s, a large range of watches was tested for durability and precision under extreme changes and vibrations.

The Professional was selected by NASA, the U.S space agency and it is mostly known thanks to astronaut who wore it during the moon landing, 1969. Became the first Swiss watch in space thanks to a Heuer Stopwatch, worn by in 1962 when he piloted the on the first manned U.S. Orbital mission. The Navitimer Cosmonaute was designed with a to avoid confusion between AM and PM, which are meaningless in space.

It was first worn in space by U.S. Astronaut on 24 May 1962 in the mercury capsule.

Since 1994 is the exclusive supplier for manned space missions authorized by the. (CNSA) astronauts wear the spacewatches. At, 2008, announced the creation of the first watch ever designed specifically for a space walk, Spring Drive Spacewalk. Is flight certified by for space missions and is one of the watches qualified by NASA for space travel.

The DW-5600C and 5600E, DW 6900, and DW 5900 are Flight-Qualified for NASA space travel. Various Timex Datalink models were used both by cosmonauts and astronauts. Scuba diving. Seiko 7002–7020 Diver's 200 m on a 4-ring NATO style strap Watches may be crafted to become water resistant. These watches are sometimes called when they are suitable for. The issued a standard for water resistant watches which also prohibits the term ' to be used with watches, which many countries have adopted.

Water resistance is achieved by the which forms a watertight seal, used in conjunction with a sealant applied on the case to help keep water out. The material of the case must also be tested in order to pass as water resistant.

None of the tests defined by for the Water Resistant mark are suitable to qualify a watch for scuba diving. Such watches are designed for everyday life and must be water resistant during exercises such as swimming. They can be worn in different temperature and pressure conditions but are under no circumstances designed for scuba diving. The standards for diving watches are regulated by the international standard. The watches are tested in static or still water under 125% of the rated (water) pressure, thus a watch with a 200-metre rating will be water resistant if it is stationary and under 250 metres of static water. The testing of the water resistance is fundamentally different from non-dive watches, because every watch has to be fully tested.

Besides water resistance standards to a minimum of 100 metre depth rating ISO 6425 also provides eight minimum requirements for mechanical diver's watches for scuba diving (quartz and digital watches have slightly differing readability requirements). For diver's watches for mixed-gas saturation diving two additional requirements have to be met. Watches are classified by their degree of water resistance, which roughly translates to the following (1 metre = 3.281 feet): Main Article Water-resistance rating Suitability Remarks Water Resistant or 30 m Suitable for everyday use. Splash/rain resistant. NOT suitable for diving, swimming, snorkeling, water-related work, or fishing. Water Resistant 50 m Suitable for swimming, white-water rafting, non-snorkeling water related work, and fishing.

NOT suitable for diving. Water Resistant 100 m Suitable for recreational surfing, swimming, snorkeling, sailing, and water sports. NOT suitable for diving. Water Resistant 200 m Suitable for professional marine activity and serious surface water sports. Suitable for diving. Diver's 100 m Minimum ISO standard for at depths not requiring helium gas.

Diver's 100 m and 150 m watches are generally old(er) watches. Diver's 200 m or 300 m Suitable for scuba diving at depths not requiring helium gas. Typical ratings for contemporary diver's watches. Diver's 300 + m helium safe Suitable for (helium-enriched environment). Watches designed for helium mixed-gas diving will have additional markings to point this out.

Some watches use instead of meters, which may then be multiplied by 10, and then subtract 10 to be approximately equal to the rating based on metres. Therefore, a 5 bar watch is equivalent to a 40-metre watch.

Some watches are rated in (atm), which are roughly equivalent to bar. Navigation. Main article: There is a traditional method by which an can be used to locate north and south. The Sun appears to move in the sky over a 24-hour period while the hour hand of a 12-hour takes twelve hours to complete one rotation. In the northern hemisphere, if the watch is rotated so that the hour hand points toward the Sun, the point halfway between the hour hand and 12 o'clock will indicate south.

For this method to work in the southern hemisphere, the 12 is pointed toward the Sun and the point halfway between the hour hand and 12 o'clock will indicate north. During, the same method can be employed using 1 o'clock instead of 12. This method is accurate enough to be used only at fairly high latitudes. See also.