Longines developed its UltraQuartz movement cal6512 in parallel to the Beta21 development and their early success -- they announced this innovation in August 1969, although sale and public offering started later and slowly, as everything was assembled by hand -- made Longines to pull out of the CEH Beta21 project: they sold the majority of their project shares to Omega and produced finally just a fraction of their initially planned Longines Beta21 QuartzChron cal6412.

However, the cal6512 UltraQuartz used a very similar concept at all: a quartz vibrating stable at 9'350Hz was the timer and in a feedback-loop was checked against a tuningfork-like micromotor humming at 170Hz, which was used to make the hands move.

So, the differences to Beta21 is the fact the quartz was just used as some kind of correction against the micromotor and not as the source of stable intervals to move the motor. And furthermore it used discrete electronic components instead of a integrated circuit: that resulted in a wild arrangement of 14 transistors, 19 resistors and 7 capacitors on the main plate -- all assembled by hand.

So, while we have Beta21 prototypes being the earliest quartz-driven wristwatches, the Longines UltraQuartz cal6512 was the first publicly announced quartz watch -- beating even the Seiko Astron 35SQ by four months. However, its prototype appearance, its time consuming and complicated assembly and its unreliability make it probably the rarest of the pioneering triumvirate: Longines UltraQuartz, Seiko Astron 35SQ and CEH Beta21.