The escapement mechanism has been widely used for centuries in mechanical clocks. It is the mechanism by which a clock controls the release of stored energy, allowing it to advance in small, precise ...

For all their advances, mechanical watches haven't changed fundamentally in over 340 years. Now Swiss watchmaker Zenith has broken new ground by creating an "oscillator" that replaces the conventional ...

With its combined knowledge of micro-manufacturing processes and accuracy processes, CSEM has been a pioneer in the design and production of centimeter-scale silicon parts with fine mechanical ...

Time is an inalienable part of our reality. Scientists don’t understand it fully at the universe’s largest and smallest scales, but fortunately for humans, a panoply of natural philosophers and ...