Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry (with Aled Maclean-Jones) (opens in new tab)

<p class="columns"><img decoding="async" style="float: right;" src="https://www.econlib.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Depositphotos_10915542_S.jpg" alt="" width="200" /> How did an industry survive a technology that should have made it obsolete? <a href="https://aledmj.substack.com/">Aled Maclean-Jones</a> explains to EconTalk&#8217;s <a href="https://www.econlib.org/library/About.html#roberts">Russ Roberts</a> how Japanese quartz watches nearly wiped out Swiss watchmaking with cheaper, more...