Live briefing
Everything about Quartz clock
Clock type
Quartz clocks and quartz watches are timepieces that use an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time. The crystal oscillator, controlled by the resonant mechanical vibrations of the quartz crystal, creates a signal with very precise frequency, so that quartz clocks and watches are at least an order of magnitude more accurate than mechanical clocks. Generally, some form of digital logic counts the cycles of this signal and provides a numerical time display, usually in units of hours, minutes, and seconds. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Quartz clockA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The Best DIY Quartz Clock Yet > Vastly Superior Timing Tech Comes HomeInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: QuarzuhrentechnikThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Evolution of the Quartz Crystal Clock*Cited 82 times
- Go sideways: History of watchesA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Omega Marine ChronometerA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Any timepiece that makes use of the piezoelectric property of a quartz crystal.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Evolution of the Quartz Crystal Clock*
A Novel Quartz Clock With Integrated Wireless Energy Harvesting and Sensing Functions
Pursuing frequency standards and control: the invention of quartz clock technologies
Time Standards for the Twentieth Century: Telecommunication, Physics, and the Quartz Clock
Annual Fluctuations in Quartz Clock Error and Frequency Drift
Move over, quartz: the atomic clock gets smaller and cheaper
Evolution of Timekeeping from Water Clock to Quartz Clock - the Curious Case of the Bulova ACCUTRON 214 the First Transistorized Wristwatch
Synchronization of Pendulum Clocks with the Help of Signals Taken from a Quartz-Crystal Clock
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Quarzuhrentechnik · 1979
- 📕Properties of nearly perfect crystals at very low temperaturesWeber, J. · 1994
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- History of watches The history of watches began in 16th-century Europe, where watches evolved from portable spring-driven clocks, which first appeared in the 15th century…
- Omega Marine Chronometer The Omega Marine Chronometer was the first quartz wristwatch ever to be awarded certified status as a marine chronometer. The watch was made by Omega SA…
- Watch A watch is a timepiece carried or worn by a person. It is designed to maintain a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities…
- Omega Electroquartz The Omega Electroquartz was introduced in 1969 as the first Swiss quartz watch to be produced. It was the collaboration of 20 Swiss watch companies and…
- Chronometer watch A chronometer (Ancient Greek: χρονόμετρον, khronómetron, "time measurer") is a highly accurate mechanical timepiece, with an original focus on the needs…
- Seiko Seiko Group Corporation (セイコーグループ株式会社, Seikō Gurūpu kabushiki gaisha), commonly known as Seiko (/ˈseɪkoʊ/ SAY-koh, Japanese: [seːkoː]), is a Japanese maker…
- Real-time clock A real-time clock (RTC) is an electronic timekeeping device, most often in the form of an integrated circuit (IC). Although the term often refers to the…
- Quartz crisis The quartz crisis (Switzerland) or quartz revolution (United States, Japan, and other countries) was the upheaval in the watchmaking industry caused by…