Quartz in the watch industry

Quartz in the watch industry

Back discover the Quartz to French (Pierre Curie) and his brother (Jack) and that they were studying a sample of sand in 1880, where they noticed a strange phenomenon that when exposing quartz (silicon dioxide) to the effort, it generates an electric current, and vice versa, if a quartz crystal to an electric field, they vibrate and vibrate a frequency, also found that the vibration and oscillation is regular and high accuracy.

This phenomenon, known as balbizokhrbaeh, has enabled researchers to manufacture many of the sensitive devices, notably watches designed for time measurement with high accuracy, where the share of quartz in the watch industry more than 85% of the world watch market.

The first prototype of the clock is made from quartz to 1967 where these were produced by researchers in the center of electronic clocks at noishtl in Switzerland, and in 1969 was the first quartz clock industry in Japan by the Japanese under the name Seiko ASTRON.

The principle of work of quartz clocks to provide chip of quartz by electric current from a small battery, this causes the current in shaking or pulse for a quartz crystal and carrying this traffic to the clock, and the vibrations of the quartz chip about 8192 pulse per second (Hertz) for old watches, either currently manufactured have been increasing the amount of fluctuations of up to 32,768 pulse per second (Hertz).

Quartz materials is characterized by constant flickering within range of temperature between zero and 60 degrees Celsius, while other materials which possess properties albizokhrbaeh, they deform significantly when exposed to different temperatures.

In addition to the accuracy and regularity of vibration of quartz, which leads to the quartz watches with high accuracy with the delay of one minute per year, this article is cheap and available.

And a quartz crystal which is a quad-form Silicon oxide surfaces and extracts his raw material in many countries of the world, including Brazil.

Also, the Quartz is not only used in the watch industry, but in a lot of electrical industries, as some industry circles high sensitivity and resolution, and some studies estimate that the production of more than eight billion chip of Quartz.