====== Meca-Quartz ======
**Meca-Quartz** is a pioneering family of hybrid [[quartz]] movements from [[Frédéric Piguet]].

Megaquartz movements were characterized by their use of dual crystals and a hybrid quartz/mechanical design. The two quartz crystals operated at different frequencies, 1 KHz and 16 KHz. This gave very high precision timekeeping. These movements were not thermocompensated.

Note that Jaeger-LeCoultre produced a similarly-named but unrelated hybrid quartz movement in the 1980's, the [[Jaeger-LeCoultre Mechaquartz]].

Meca-Quartz movements were used by many Swiss manufacturers, including [[Breitling]], [[Omega]], [[Hublot]], [[Chopard]], [[Daniel Roth]], [[Robergé]], and [[Bulgari]].

===== Movements =====
  * [[Piguet 1270]] - 22 jewels
  * [[Piguet 1271]] - 23 jewels

===== See Also =====
  * [[Jaeger-LeCoultre]] [[JLC 630|Cal. 630 "Mechaquartz"]]
  * [[Seiko]] [[Seiko 7A|7A "Mecha-Quartz"]]


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