A watch operated by vibrations of an electrically driven quartz crystal.
Example sentencesExamples
- Do you know that when the Japanese brought out the first battery powered quartz watches, the Swiss watch industry laid off 75 per cent of its workers?
- But quartz watches usually require only a battery which is changed every so often.
- An automatic or mechanic watch uses an engine that is powered by a spring (the automatic is also self winding); a quartz watch is powered by a battery that needs replacement once every two years.
- The Swiss failed to patent or market the quartz watch, even though they invented it, because they couldn't shift paradigms.
- A quartz watch on the other hand features electronic circuitry that has a limited lifespan.