Maggie's smart watch vision for Scotland… 40 years ago trends now

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Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher touted Dundee as a potential manufacturing hub for smart watches, newly released documents show.

Government correspondence from 1983 shows reclusive Norwegian billionaire Fred Olsen, the owner of the watch manufacturer Timex, had informed Mrs Thatcher that his company was on the cusp of a technological breakthrough.

In a private briefing for the then PM he claimed his firm would soon pioneer a ground-breaking concept: watches linked to computers and which had screens capable of showing moving images.

The revelation led Mrs Thatcher to urge Mr Olsen to choose Dundee as a base for research, development and

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