The history of clocks is a remarkable tale of human ingenuity and the pursuit of precision. Explore how ancient civilizations began measuring time and how this led to the creation of the first true ...

All clocks have essentially two elements: an oscillator and a counter. In your wrist-watch or wall clock, the oscillator is a piece of quartz rock that vibrates rhythmically when under an electric ...

Billions of people use quartz every day, but few realize it because the tiny crystals they use are hidden in their watches and clocks.

Atomic clocks were believed to be a huge improvement on quartz clocks because of the atom's stability. In the atomic clock, a quartz crystal oscillator is combined with an ensemble of atoms.

Sunday Times News: In quartz clocks, the vibrations of a quartz crystal are controlled and used to measure time.

As demonstrated by [InazumaDenki], though, an old quartz clock module can also do the job with just a little work. The module was harvested from an old Seiko wall clock, and features the familiar ...

Look, air conditioning! I have found that nearly all of these 35-year-old VDO quartz clocks still work perfectly, even as cars crumble around them. This one was no exception.

"Quartz crystal clocks are great and work very well, but if you need something that performs better — like delivering a synchronous time reference that is 1,000 times better with an atomic clock ...

Quartz clocks are much better: Even the cheapest ones are accurate to less than one second a day (and a cheap Casio is more accurate than a $10,000 mechanical Rolex).

The quartz watch, a Swiss invention subsequently commercialized and mass-marketed by Japanese companies, celebrates its 50th birthday this month.