In Pursuit of Perfection : Thermocompensated Quartz Watches and Their Movements

[NOTE: hedrick has rescued this from the Google cache. He is not the author. The original version was posted by Bruce Reding.]

The purpose of a watch is to correctly mark the passage of time. Thermocompensated quartz watches do this better than any other standalone watch ever made. Reasonable quality mechanical watches can be expected to keep time to within fifteen seconds per day. Standard quartz…

Thermocompensation: Methods and Movements