Horological Meandering

The lovely shots below of the Citizen Campanolas led me to ask myself a question that I'm sure more than a few people here can answer: Was there ever a time when serious watchmakers/WIS's found quartz technology as wonderful and beguiling as they find mec... 

. . .may I call you Chromatic? Well, I think that quartz certainly at one time exerted more of an overt intellectual fascination than it currently does. Seiko came out with the first quartz watch- the Astron- in December of 1969 and since then there have ... 

. . . . that's fascinating. As to your introductory question, you can call me Jon! I named myself after the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (BWV 903), one of my favorite Bach pieces. As I think about it, those who are fascinated with complex mechanical moveme... 

. . .sharing the name behind the name! Well, you raise an interesting point. You know, despite the layers of other- and I hasten to add, perfectly legit -levels of engagement with horology, it has always been the relationship between the mechanical embodi... 

One of the beauties of quartz watches is that it's a "true" technology. It's built on older technologies, it contributes to other current technologies and will contribute to future technologies that will, eventually, replace it (or, at least, shuffle it i... 

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