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Further Questions for Discussion: -Do you think that New York City's annual ball drop is the "greatest single moment of public timekeeping in the world"?

GLANCE at any technology blog, and all the innovation in the world of timekeeping seems to be captured by two words: smart watches.

But when LVMH acquired four Swiss watchmakers, including the venerable Ebel brand, more than a year ago, it sent vibrations through a rarefied world of timekeeping that are now likely to become louder.

But the accuracy of caesium clocks has introduced a potentially disastrous glitch into the world's timekeeping.

These were the world's best timekeeping measures up through the early 20th century.

Although initially limited to laboratories, the development of microelectronics in the 1960s made quartz clocks both compact and cheap to produce, and by the 1980s they became the world's dominant timekeeping technology in both clocks and wristwatches.

"However, when we get to such creations as triple and quadruple tourbillons, we are beginning to lose touch with the reality of timekeeping and we are entering the world of kinetic horological sculpture, with the only true function being 'to do it to show that you can,"' Mr. Smith said.

An atomic clock is the world's most accurate timekeeping device.

Timekeeping around the world: How late is too late?

In fact, according to a recent study, all of the world's 10 worst airlines for timekeeping for the month of June were Chinese.

ABU DHABI — Will the precision of Swiss timekeeping finally resolve the Muslim world's centuries-old calendrical conflict?