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Months and months ago, we created a group called "I Read Hodinkee.com" on Facebook. To date, we have 266 members, each of which we would like to thoroughly thank. Now, however, we're switching things up and will be using a Fan Page, because Facebook decided to give these things more replica audemars piguet mens 25860stoo1110st03 watches functionality than groups (by far). So, if you love Hodinkee and appreciate what we're doing, please become a fan of Hodinkee on Facebook. We will be updating it regularly with some exclusive events, photos, and posts that you won't be able to find anywhere else.We stumbled across a great article written in TIME Magazine back in the early 70s about how the watch industry was going through a true revolution of sorts. It details a new exciting technology that was sure to change the way watches are made, quartz crystal of course.It makes mention the very first marketable quartz watch, a Bulova for an incredible $1350 (~$7500 if adjusted for inflation) as well as a host of replica audemars piguet mens 25860stoo1110st03 watches other quartz pieces soon to be introduced by the likes of Omega, Girard-Perregaux, Longines, and Piaget.This article was written even before the first LCD watch was released by Longines which "displays the hour, minute, second and date in digits on a miniaturized TV-like screen. The costabout $300." That $300 today would be about $1700...seems like a lot for an untested technology, doesn't it?
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