Re:Timex Is Making Watches in America Again
by laken on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @02:42PM
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Quartz watches "tick" only once per second. Mechanical watches move generally 6ish times a second, causing a perpetual movement. This makes them better for measuring things in fractions of seconds than a quartz movement.
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Re:Timex Is Making Watches in America Again
by criddell on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @03:40PM
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> only once per second
That isn't generally true.
Here's an analog quartz chronograph that has 1/10 second dial: https://youtu.be/mPP3EeWdJsA?t=97
If you are talking about a sweep second hand, there are plenty of quartz movements that do that.
If you go for digital quartz, you can get 1/100 second accuracy in a $10 watch.
The longer you time something, the worse the mechanical watch is going to be. Most of them gain or lose several seconds every day.
Zenith is the only manufacturer that I know does significantly better than this, but that particular movement is pretty rare and extraordinarily expensive.