Types of clocks and watches

The clock is divided into electronic clock and mechanical clock.

1, mechanical clocks

The earliest mechanical clocks in the West appeared in the thirteenth century in the monasteries of Europe, initially in the monasteries of England to weights driven mechanical clocks. At that time, mechanical clocks relied on clock watchers to ring the bell every hour to notify the monks to carry out various religious activities on time, not yet fully connected with people's daily lives.

2, electronic clocks

Electronic clocks use digital circuits to display the seconds, minutes and hours, compared with traditional mechanical clocks, it has the advantages of accurate timekeeping, intuitive display, no mechanical transmission device, and so on, and thus widely used. With the continuous improvement and beautification of people's living environment, digital electronic clocks can be seen in many occasions.

Expanded Information

Electronic clock function description: electronic clock clock function: with optional 24h (hours) or 12h (hours) of timekeeping, displaying the hours, minutes, and seconds; with rapid calibration of the hours, minutes, and seconds function.

Can set the alarm moment, alarm time of 1min (minutes), more than 1min (minutes) automatically stop; with artificial stop alarm function, stop alarm no longer re-operate, will no longer occur alarm; with a whole point chime function. With the progress of science and technology and developed, part of the electronic clock also with projection function, at the same time derived from the auxiliary function for many other products.

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