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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11767, 14 October 1932, Page 2

A retired whichmaker of' Geneva l,as just fulfilled hie ambition, of years to perfect an electric watch,. Driven by a “fly-power”, , motor, it needs no connection with outside wire's. The case contains a storage battery * no larger than the winding mechanism of most timepieces, which, is declared to Jhold its charge dor one year' It may be re-charged when' necessary.;-; Electricity operates the watch and does not merely wind a spring, as In self-winding. clocks. Plans, have been announced lo market the invention in Europe and America., Now the iiivi'ntor, Georges Peh laton, is striving to construct an electric: wrist watch, an ambition that, calls for a radical rearrangement pf tile mechanism and a corresponding reduction in the size • of the motoi and the /battery. 1