The Rolex quartz caliber for ladies’ watches (Caliber 6035) with sweep seconds hand and date disk had the exact same dimensions as the Ladies’ Datejust (19.79 mm by 5.00 mm). The frequency of the 32 kHz Micro Crystal tuning fork quartz resonator was fine-tuned with a trimmer. The CMOS ...
When WWI arrived, however,soldiers were equipped with wrist watches to synchronize their movementsduring maneuvers. These ‘campaign watches,’ now heralded as appropriately masculine, have been worn ever since. Quartz clocks During the 1920s, Warren Marrison and J.W. Horton at Bell Telephone Labor...
In personal interview, Sonam Brauen explained that she made scans with a three-dimensional camera focussed on real bones, which were then enlarged to 70 cm each and executed in quartz. She described this work as a commentary on her own life, where at times she experienced great hunger, and...