Brand: Quartron
Manufacturer: Timex/Laco/Durowe
Type: Mans Watch
Reference: Quartron
Caliber: M58 movement (non functional, blank circuit boards)
Battery: 335 (no longer available)
Year: 1970
Case: Brushed gold plated base metal
Dial: White with ‘gemstone’ markers
The Timex Quartron is a prototype watch created in the early stages of the quartz crisis, a period when cheap high accuracy quartz movements were being introduced much to the dismay of mechanical watch manufacturers.
Notable cllectors Jewsey Mo and Paul Schumacker suggest that this piece was created by manufacturers Laco/Durowe as they were being acquired by Timex in the 1960’s.
It contains the start of an upgraded electic movement that was never finalised and put into production.
Quartron name trademark 9-9-1969 https://uspto.report/TM/72337394
The red tab holds the setting mechanism out one stop so the battery does not run down while the watch is being displayed.
Case back stamped 1970
6 jewels – you can see the blank circuitboard to the right
West Germany signifies Laco/Durowe production, Movement labeled M58
