Modern Watches are not Just a Timepiece.
1812, Abraham-Louis Breguet designed the first wristwatch for Queen Caroline Murat, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. This watch, made by Breguet, is equipped with a strap that attaches to the Queen’s wrist.
The brand name is taken from its founder, Abraham-Louis Breguet who was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, on January 10, 1747.
In 1926 the automatic watch changed all this forever with the addition of a driven rotor that re-tightened the spring with the natural movement of the wearer’s hand.
This invention was followed by a second revolution in 1969 in the manufacture of the first quartz watch.
In 1972, Hamilton introduced the world’s first commercial electronic digital wristwatch which was followed by SEIKO’s introduction of the world’s first six-digit LCD quartz wristwatch with code 0614 in 1973.
In 1998, Steve Mann invented, designed, and built the world’s first Linux watch. The scope of this wristwatch project includes planning, design, development, testing, and then product release. His product was presented at IEEE ISSCC2000 on February 7, 2000, at which time he was named the “father of wearable computing”.
The first generation of Sony Smart Watch design was released in 2012. Sony smart watch is a line of devices developed and marketed by Sony Mobile until 2016 through three generations. They are connected to the Android OS. The features of this watch include displaying information such as Twitter features and SMS messages.
Then in April 2015 Apple, the world’s largest technology company, released its long-awaited smartwatch. It has much more detailed functionality that approaches the smartphones you see today, including mobile apps, mobile operating systems, and WiFi/Bluetooth connectivity.
Some smartwatches function as portable media players, with FM radio and playback of digital audio and video files via a Bluetooth headset. Some models, called watch phones (or watch phones), have cellular functions such as making phone calls.
In essence, a smartwatch is a wearable computer in the form of a wristwatch. Modern smartwatches provide local touchscreen interfaces for everyday use, while their health-related smartphone apps provide telemetry management and biomonitoring.
Like computers, smartwatches can gather information from internal or external sensors and can control, or retrieve data from, other instruments or computers. It is possible that smartwatches already support wireless technologies such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS.
For many purposes, a “watch computer” serves as the front end for a remote system such as a smartphone, communicating with the smartphone using a variety of wireless technologies.
In recent times, smartwatches have seen advances in design, battery capacity, and health-related applications including heart rate, SpO2, and other sports-related health features.