While this watch may look goofy as all get-out, rest assured it holds an important spot in the history of timekeeping. It is one of the first “atomic” clocks that is accurate to a second every ...

The Urwerk AMC Clock and Watch pairs an atomic tabletop clock with a wrist-bound timepiece via a “complex mechanical linkage”, duplicating all of the functions of Breguet’s most advanced ...

“Breguet’s most advanced Sympathique was able to regulate, synchronize, and wind its watch ... the clock and placed on a wrist-borne cradle. Nevertheless, the complexity of the atomic ...

In a wrist watch there is often a crystal with an electrically oscillating signal. A particular number of “back and forths” corresponds to one second. An atomic clock makes use of an ...

or in other words, it's an atomic clock strapped to your wrist. If being punctual is your ... Dr. John Patterson, owner of Bathys Hawaii, claims the watch is accurate to one second over the ...

With all the fuss over the recent influx of do-everything smartwatches, you would think that a new wristwatch that simply displays the time on an analog face wouldn't cause much of a stir.

A new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder is helping researchers count seconds to ...

The Chip Scale Atomic Clock is a matchbox-sized atomic clock, that uses one one-hundredth the power of its conventional counterparts (Photo: Symmetricom Inc.) View gallery - 3 images ...

The theory was developed by Neils Bohr's great-grandson. The use of a special type of atom could make even the most advanced atomic clocks more precise, scientists believe. If confirmed ...