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The Casio Company was started 1946 by Tadao Kashio. Understand that this was in Japan following World War II. In 1957 Casio released the Model 14-A, the world´s first all-electric compact calculator, which was based on relay technology. 1957 also marked the establishment of Casio Computer Co. Ltd.With the launch of its first watch in November 1974, Casio entered the wristwatch market at a time when the watch industry had just discovered digital technology. As a company with cutting-edge electronic technology developed for pocket calculators, Casio entered this field confident that it could develop timepieces that would lead the market.It is possible that the most well remembered watch produced by this company was the calculator watch.Considering the calculator watch was so much fun, Casio continued to raise the bar.One such watch could display the time of many different time zones at the touch of a button. Others were equipped to give weather details like the temperature and barometric pressure. |
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