Quartz Watches

What exactly is a quartz watch? To answer this question, let's start by telling a little about the history of clocks and watch mechanisms. For thousands of years, various and strange devices have been used to document and track time. The time system we use today, in which time is divided into sixty parts, dates back to about 4000 years ago, to the Sumerian period. The Egyptians divided the day into two 12-hour shifts each, and used obelisks (a narrow, tall monument) to track the movement of the sun. They also developed water clocks , which worked on the mechanism of a steady flow of water…