The Naviquartz is a nautically themed, quartz-powered clock released by Patek in the 1970s. It was originally designed as a back-up navigational system for ships, but later relegated to dryer ...

Though if a clock costs you only $1, I suppose you can expect to get what you pay for. José Pino has apparently run into more than a few cheesily-made quartz clocks, or just has had extremely bad luck ...

Atomic clocks were believed to be a huge improvement on quartz clocks because of the atom's stability. In the atomic clock, a quartz crystal oscillator is combined with an ensemble of atoms.

While computer chips keep shrinking, the size of gadgets is still limited, in part, by relatively large pieces of quartz that act as pacemakers for electronic circuits. But within the next few ...

Sure enough, there was a sharp-looking analog clock in the middle of the faux-wood dash. Generally, quartz timepieces from Ford products of the 1980s will work, so I didn't bother to test it.

Look, air conditioning! I have found that nearly all of these 35-year-old VDO quartz clocks still work perfectly, even as cars crumble around them. This one was no exception.