Since the advent of the quartz watch in 1969 (first introduced by Seiko, who were quickly followed by a slew of Swiss brands) accuracy has become something that we take for granted not only from watches, but pretty much from anything that tells the time; cell phones, for instance, pull a time signal over their networks that’s based on atomic clocks accurate to about a second every million or so years, which is pretty conspicuously more accuracy than anyone is ever going to need. First-time own...
Since the advent of the quartz watch in 1969 (first introduced by Seiko, who were quickly followed by a slew of Swiss brands) accuracy has become something that we take for granted not only from watches, but pretty much from anything that tells the time; cell phones, for instance, pull a time signal over their networks that’s based on atomic clocks accurate to about a second every million or so years, which is pretty conspicuously more accuracy than anyone is ever going to need. First-time own...
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