Calculator watch financial functions (in the Casio CBA-10). Usually calculator watch operates with eight digits number, however, calculator watch can operate with 6 digits (for example, Casio C-801) or 10 digits (Casio CBA-10) numbers. Calculator watches first appeared in the mid 1970s introduced by Pulsar (1975, then a brand of the Hamilton Watch Company) and Hewlett Packard. Several watch manufacturers have made calculator watches over the years, such as Pulsar and Timex, but the Japanese electronics company Casio produced the largest variety of models. In the mid-1980s, Casio created the Databank calculator watch, which not only performed calculator functions, but also stored
Busicom subsequently "Broughtons & Co.(Bristol) Ltd" of the UK. The "Nippon Calculating Machine Corp" was incorporated in 1945 and changed its name in 1967 to "Business Computer Corporation", Busicom. Due to a recession in Japan in 1974, Busicom became the first major Japanese company in the calculator industry to fail. Originally, they made Odhner type mechanical calculators and then moved on to electronic calculators always using state of the art designs. They made the first calculator with a microprocessor for their top of the line machines and they were the first to make calculators with an all-in-one calculator chip, the Mostek