Comparing Automatic Wind up and Quartz Watch

During the early years, wind up watches are make up of various components including a spring to give the power, gears connecting to hands on dial and coordinating the movement of the speed, oscillating weight. It is important to note that once the mainspring is fully wound, any more actions to wind up the spring will cause damage to the wheels. Then the Bulova company used a transistor oscillator in replaced of the balance wheel. The watch will hummed instead of the old ticking sound. A battery is used in place of the wind up main spring. Soon, quartz crystal make up of silicon dioxide are used in place of the tuning fork. Quartz crystals have been used for many years in radio transmitters, computers because of their accuracy. The only problem is the correct selectio View the rest of this article