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2024-05
What's the Difference between Automatic and Mechanical Watches ?
When you first get sucked into the world of watches, a couple of fundamental concepts await. First, you might learn to notice the difference between a seconds hand that ticks and one that smoothly sweeps.
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2024-01
Watch craftsmanship, from design to manufacturing
Watches have always been one of the precious items loved by people, and watch craftsmanship has also been an important part of making watches. With the passage of time, the manufacturing process of watches has undergone a long and continuous development and transformation, each of which is aimed at better meeting people's needs for watches and bringing them a better user experience.
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2024-01
Quartz watches, history and models – Part One
Who invented the quartz watch movement, and when was the quartz watch created? How does a quartz watch work, and what are the best quartz operated watches currently available? Here are some of the questions we’ll answer in this series dedicated to uncovering the history of quartz watchmaking; from the beginning of the race to high-precision time measurement down to the reveal of the first quartz watch and beyond. Quartz technology and quartz clocks appeared decades before the first quartz wristwatch came in 1969; the latter is the endpoint of a long-term process geared towards incessantly improving a watch’s accuracy, started towards the end of 1950. Back then, the aim was to improve a mechanical watch’s accuracy by increasing its frequency to ten beats per second. Towards the end of the 1950s, the market was flooded with watches running at eight beats per second.
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