Seven reasons to shop Canadian when buying your next watch

Like so many Canadian success stories, the Momentum Sea Quartz 30 watch had to make it big in Hollywood first. Created in the 1970s by Chronosport, a Canadian-owned pioneer in quartz (or battery-powered) sports watches, the Sea Quartz 30 was sold in dive shops throughout Canada and the United States. Its real claim to fame, however, was a supporting role on Tom Selleck's wrist during the first season of Magnum PI. Forty-some years later, Chronosport has rebranded as Momentum. A modern reproduction of the Sea Quartz 30, complete with all of the hairy-chested swagger of the 1970s original, remains one…