Chapter 1178 High-tech is expensive (first update, please subscribe)
Among all the cities in Nanyang, Zhongxing and Yongding are the cities with the least presence in Nanyang. Compared with the former, the latter The person has no sense of existence. After all, the former has minerals and large factories. In contrast, Yongding, the capital of Yongning Islands, has no advantageous industry.
Although this place was famous for its rich production of cloves, cardamom, and pepper in ancient times, it was called the Spice Islands. But now these spices have long been distributed in tropical areas, so naturally they are no longer a dominant industry.
If there is one, it is tourism.
In fact, this is also the focus of local development. Millions of tourists flock here from all over the world every year. Although beaches and coconut groves are common in Southeast Asia, island travel with local characteristics always attracts many tourists. After all, in addition to the island scenery, there are also some local indigenous people who are good at singing and dancing. They have long been trained to be very service-minded, and they are also particularly docile.
As a city in Yongning, the streets become extremely lively every night - tourists from all over the world flock to the streets to enjoy the charming night and linger in bars and amusement parks.
In the crowded streets, people who come here from all over the world to relax and enjoy themselves here. Local people also go out of their homes to enjoy the cool sea breeze at night with their families.
Outside a movie theater, a very feminine young woman was pushing a stroller. While talking to the children, she accidentally glanced at the person on the poster. She couldn't help but froze. Those eyes Can't help but fall on the poster.
The girl following the young woman asked curiously:
"Mom, what are you watching? Do you want to watch a movie?"
Several other children beside them also set their sights on the cinema, but looking at those posters, they immediately lost interest. For the six children, the oldest was only ten years old and the youngest was only three or four years old, animated movies It's their favorite.
Looking at his wife's gaze, the man beside him suddenly realized and smiled.
"Haha, your mother saw an acquaintance. That movie... it was Zheng Chenggong, an actress. I knew your mother back then. She was the runner-up of Miss Shanghai and Hainan."
"Miss Huhai? What is that?"
"She is the most beautiful woman in Shanghai."
"Just her? She's not as beautiful as my mother."
"Yes, yes, my mother is the prettiest! She is the most beautiful in the world."
The children were indignant on the sidelines said.
Holding the child, Zhang Xingde looked at his wife proudly and said,
"So, she is the runner-up. Of course, she is not as beautiful as the champion..."
"Ade..."
Wang Yunmei rolled her eyes at her husband and signaled him not to talk to the children. After all, it was all in the past.
She turned around, pushing the stroller, and said to the children:
"Okay, what is beautiful or not, let's go, mother, take you to the amusement park, okay... ..."
As she spoke, she pushed the stroller forward, and the children cheered together.
The woman's graceful figure looks nothing like the mother of seven children. Looking at his wife's figure, even so many years have passed, Zhang Xingde still remembers her alone on the dock that year, wearing a uniform. Wearing a cheongsam, she just stood on the pier, looking into the distance desperately.
He couldn't bear it, so he went over and asked.
"If you want to leave, come on the boat with me!"
Then, she got on the boat. Later, when he was on the boat, he realized that she was actually Hu Miss Hai, the second concubine of a wealthy family, was known to many people on the ship, but she was still abandoned on the street amid the chaos of war.
Later, she became his wife, and he was just an ordinary soldier who threw his gun into the Huangpu River.
But I married "Miss Huhai". Just thinking about this makes me feel like I'm dreaming...
Under the bright lights, the family is walking on the street like this, with the children's laughter and the woman occasionally talking. The squealing sound reminds the children to run slower,
The happiness of life is sometimes so simple.
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While people were enjoying the lively night in this resort town, in the Lange Watch Company in Yongding, this company, like many companies in Nanyang, also Originated from Germany, it is also a well-known watch brand in Germany. It was a symbol of German precision manufacturing before the war. However, because the Glashütte region where Lange is located is located in East Germany, all watchmaking companies have been nationalized, including Lange's business and brand trademark ownership.
And because Lange made a large number of precision military watches for NC during World War II, Germany was naturally implicated after the defeat. The Soviet Union took away a large number of inventory products, machinery, equipment and drawings. The remaining movements were put together by nationalized companies to create some products and sell them using Lange's reputation. Later, the Lange brand was also cancelled, and the trademarks of Glashütte or GUB were unified.
Walter Lange, the fourth generation of the Lange family, ran to West Germany after the war. Although he went through hardships, the fire in his heart to revive the family brand never disappeared. After being extinguished, he later contacted the Allied contingent and, with the help of lawyers, transferred the Lange brand to the Borneo Company, and then with the help of the company, reestablished the Lange company in Nanyang.
Although its equipment is all newly purchased, the company's engineers and technicians are all from the Glashütte area, including extremely valuable senior watchmakers. It is thanks to them that Lange has rapidly It has become the most famous watch manufacturer in Southeast Asia, and its various watches and timepieces have quickly entered the international market relying on the hundreds of years of pre-war "Lange" heritage.
Actually, this is often the case, people recognize the brand.
Once a brand is formed, it is difficult to shake this brand recognition easily. 35% of Nanyang's brands originate from Germany, especially East Germany. The reason is that the post-war nationalization of East Germany resulted in a large number of brand trademarks. Buried, some of the brand holders fled to West Germany. With no hope of recovery, they were sold to Nanyang through lawyers to obtain funds to support their families. Others were purchased by Nanyang from East German officials through agencies.
The repurchased trademark can certainly help Nanyang goods quickly enter the international market under the disguise of "well-known brands", but what is more important is technology. Lange attaches great importance to this aspect and not only further After studying watch technology, Nanyang Lange soon appeared in the watch industry as a top-notch watch. At the same time, new types of timepieces are still being developed in Lange’s laboratory.
“This is our quartz watch?”
In Lange’s laboratory, Walter Lange held up his glasses and looked at the watch in front of him with some curiosity. Its internal structure is completely different from that of ordinary watches. Because he had produced quartz clocks before the war, he knew the gold content of this watch very well. It took a long time to say it.
“I really didn’t expect that you could make a quartz watch so compact.”
The quartz clock was successfully developed by Bell Laboratories as early as 2008, with an accuracy of only 1 second for 30 years. Since then, the quartz clock has become the global time standard until it was replaced by the atomic clock a few years ago.
During the war, Lange also produced quartz clocks in large quantities. However, there are still two major obstacles for quartz to enter the watch field. The first is that the quartz oscillator used uses natural quartz, almost all of which come from Brazil, and there are production capacity constraints. The second is that it cannot be reduced to a size that can be worn on the wrist. In the early days, it was impossible to precisely cut quartz into small pieces, and quartz clocks were equipped with bulky vacuum tube circuits. Not only was it difficult to shrink it into a watch, but it was also thought at that time that it was impossible to reduce the cost enough to enable mass commercial applications.
But post-war technological advances broke through these obstacles. Ten years ago, Bell Labs invented the hydrothermal synthesis method to synthesize quartz, and the development of semiconductor technology in Nanyang provided cheap electronic parts; especially two years ago, photolithography technology was born in Nanyang, although it was used to etch silicon wafers. , but it can also be used to etch quartz to cut out tiny quartz pieces to create smaller quartz oscillators, so the technical foundation for quartz watches is finally ready.
As early as a few years ago, Lange had decided to design and mass-produce accurate electronic watches - in fact, this was Li Yian's decision. The reason why Lange was asked to study quartz watches and even purchased them from the mall I took out some samples.
On the surface, the development of quartz clocks is a new goal set by the management for the R&D team: to develop a portable quartz clock for the 1960 Olympics. Although Omega watches have a monopoly on Olympic timers, the host country can choose other brands. A quartz clock serves as the official timekeeper.
So Lange began research in this area and hired several electronic engineers. Finally, in February 1958, it successfully developed a portable timing clock and was used in the Asian Games.
Subsequently, small After the quartz clock was put on the market, it was immediately sought after by the market. Then, engineers devoted themselves to miniaturizing and improving the clock. First, it became a large pocket watch last year, and now it is a wrist watch.
The world’s first quartz watch!
"Has its selling price been calculated? How much is it?"
Walter asked.
"2500 yuan."
As soon as this quotation came out, even though Lange had many high-end watches, Walter still couldn't help but gasped. This is almost equivalent to a mid-range car. .
Ordinary people cannot afford such high-end watches! Even high-end Lange watches are sold at almost this price.
“What is the error?”
“The daily error range is plus or minus 0.2 seconds.”
Hearing this, Walter's brows wrinkled, and he said to himself:
"How could this happen? There is no competitive advantage at all!"
The reason why he has this Doubtful, the reason is very simple, because at the beginning, they believed that quartz watches had more competitive advantages-lower prices, making it easier to enter the low-end market.
Although Lange now has a foothold in the high-end market, in the low-end market, the competitive pressure it faces is very great, not only from brand competition from Switzerland, West Germany, the United States and other countries, but also from Even cheap watches from Dongda have begun to enter the market in large numbers.
So, Walter hopes to occupy the low-end watch market with quartz watches, but at this price, there is a hint of cheapness.
The engineer on the side explained:
“It is very expensive now, but I believe that with the further development of technology, its price will definitely become cheaper, and high technology has never been cheap!”
Yes, the reason why it is so expensive is not because it is technology!
(End of this chapter)