# quartz crisis

> economic upheavals caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s

**Wikidata**: [Q579673](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q579673)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_crisis)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/quartz-crisis


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013