Despite their name, solar powered watches can seem like a bit of a mystery. Light goes in, something happens and you never have to charge it again. To paraphrase Leonard Cohen, this isn’t about how the light gets in, but where. And what does it do when it gets there?
Who Invented The Solar Power Watch?
First, a bit of history. The bets would have been on Seiko to launch the first solar powered watch, especially after its success with the Quartz-Crisis-causing Astron. However, it was actually a semiconductor company that got there first called Ragen.
The watch was made by the inventor Roger Riehl and named Sychronar 2100,