A 4-page list of watches that can do more than just tell time!
Another list of cutting-edge watches!
A European mobile carrier has created a cellphone watch!
This is a list of the top 25 most innovative watches—really puts perspective on the direction that time telling is headed!
A rare 14th-centry timepiece found on a cattle farm in London, making it the second oldest uncovered timepiece in timekeeping history.
Although these have been around for quite some time now very few people seem to be aware of this product so I felt it was my duty to share these very cool timepieces with you. Phosphor (founded in 1997) have designed a range of watches all based around the revolutionary E-Ink technology. Due to…
E-Ink is popping up everywhere! First on our tablets, soon on our wrists!
How to Make a Clock Run for 10,000 Years | Wired.com
Wow, this is nuts. One of the craziest ideas I’ve heard.
Jeff Bezo is putting his plan, to make a clock that will run for 10,000 years, into action!
That hunk of metal to the right is the world’s most accurate clock, say people with more knowledge of time and atomic clocks than anyone else.
Called a cesium fountain clock (aka atomic clock), this British ticker is accurate to within two 10 million billionths of a second and won’t lose a second for the next ten million years or more. I hope someone is around to wind it at that time, otherwise things could get awkward when our bioconstruct kin are zipping around with their FTL drives and arrive in Alpha Centauri a full second late.
(Source: fieldyweb)
A very boring, but very informative video about the history of timekeeping and the evolution of different types of clocks.
If you’ve just purchased your first automatic wristwatch or are planning on purchasing your first automatic piece, we’d like to remind you of a few basic instructions and tips. If you purchased your watch through a reliable and trustworthy source then there’s a good chance you’ve probably been…
Perfect post for anyone interested in purchasing, or just learning more about, an automatic time piece!
Another awesome site detailing who came up with the concept of time keeping, what components are involved and why, and what different methods of time keeping exist.
This website states that there is no specific individual or group to invent a time-keeping device. However, the earliest known device was a very primitive sundial which involved only wedging a stick into the ground.
This website also include information about:
-The origin of the word “clock”
-Different time-keeping concepts including: sundials/shadowdials, water clocks, candle clocks, weighs and escapement devices, spring-powered clocks, pendulum clocks, and alarm clocks.
-Different electrical clocks: battery, synchronous, tuning fork, quartz, crystal.
-Different components used in time-keeping: seconds, minutes, hours, AM and PM, and time-zones, and the calendar.
This is an amazing source of information for anyone curious about the history and different concepts of time keeping.
The contents include:
Keeping time with the sun
Keeping time with the stars
Roman timekeeping
Keeping time with water
Mechanical Time
Quartz clocks
and Atomic clocks
About me
Hi. My name is Katie Larsen and I am a 22 year old Roosevelt University student studying Integrated Marketing Communications and minoring in psychology. Like most, I've spent my entire life surrounded by technology--regardless if it is noticed or not. More specific to my age and generation, I've witnessed the extremely fast advancement in technology. For the past year and a half I've been selling and managing for a well known watch retailer, Fossil, and I've seen countless different designs and spoken to hundreds of watch aficionado. Needless to say, I'm a pretty reliable source.
