Author Archives: Keith Flamer
September 19, 2012 - There’s no need for a wake-up call in the city that never sleeps. In the Big Apple, there’s barely reason to watch the clock as long as you are having a good time.
New York City residents and tourists may not even recognize the many ticking and humming landmarks staring them in the face. Many...
March 12, 2012 - Creative watch design is usually born of unique inspiration—an exotic flower, modern architecture, an automobile dashboard or a classic icon from the past. A concept watch, however, elevates the art form, ambitiously stretching the limits of conventional thought beyond design. If creative watch de...
August 2, 2011 - Looking ahead
We've examined the past, but what does the future hold? For the curious, there is a unique clock on the horizon, but like a rainbow, we won't ever touch it in our lifetime.
How would you like to own a timepiece that posts a year between ticks and tocks? Or a clock whose cuckoo ...
August 2, 2011 - The Atomic Age
The development of radar and high frequency radio communications in the 1930s and 1940s spun off electromagnetic waves (or microwaves) capable of working with atoms needed to develop an atomic clock. The first attempts focused on microwave resonances in the ammonia molecule. Bas...
August 2, 2011 - The Quartz Revolution
The components for the quartz watch emerged from independent streams of invention that stretched over nearly a century. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries scientists identified new materials like liquid crystals and discovered unknown properties such as ...
