While the Hamilton Pulsar wasn’t the first mass-produced quartz watch—Seiko released the Astron a few months earlier, on Christmas Day, 1969—it was the first to embrace its digital nature.

When the Pulsar debuted in 1972, the first digital watch offered a new concept of time—and foreshadowed our fraught relationship with instantaneity.

Hamilton was far from the first manufacturer to release a quartz watch, but nevertheless, the Pulsar was an instant hit. It looked like nothing else on the market, it had a cool space-age-sounding ...

We love a mechanical watch. Who doesn’t!? But there are times when you’ll need a quartz-powered, easy-to-read screen. Here’s ...

From the experimental Hamilton Pulsar to the wildly successful Apple Watch, Finlay Renwick delves into the real story behind history's 'space-age wrist computers' ...

The world's first digital electronic quartz watch, the'Pulsar P1, was one of the earliest consumer products of the 1970s microelectronics revolution. Manufactured by the Hamilton Watch Company in ...

Announced in 1970 and released in 1972, Hamilton’s Pulsar P1 brought the watch world into the digital age and was followed by a number of other successful releases, including 1974’s Pulsar ...

Photo: (Hamilton Watch)Functionally, the new Hamilton PSR works exactly like the original Pulsar did: At the push of a button the face illuminates to show the time—and nothing but the time.

Vintage design codes rule in the new Hamilton PSR Digital Quartz watch, which pays tribute to the space-age aesthetic of the 1970s original. For Hamilton CEO Vivian Stauffer, the new release is an ...