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Clock Motors as well as Their Peculiarities The term "clock motors" describes the working control of conventional wrist watches. Clock motors (also called "movements" in the trade) obtain timing by counting the pulses that a quartz crystal emits, as well as from that timing establish the instant angle of turning for every hand. However timekeeping is just the most standard of these tools' capabilities, the features of which prolong from the normal to the unique and even distinctive. The initial clock motors ran mechanically. A coiled springtime or hanging weight exerted rotational force on a flywheel, as well as the mix of a pendulum and escapement controlled how quick it transformed. Fine-tuning made it possible for the clockmaker to attain a highly accurate ticking regularity.

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