Sentence examples for timekeeping that from inspiring English sources

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.

Here in New York, we have been experiencing a long-running privatization adventure in which an attempt to streamline employee timekeeping that was supposed to have cost the city $63 million wound up with a slightly unsleek tab of $700 million.

Rather, it's the idea that the Games are a showcase not just for athletics but for timekeeping, that a race is no longer a purely human endeavor.

Such is the degree of concern at Rose's timekeeping that tube staff warn the punters arriving at this show that they are likely to find tumbleweed blowing through the station if they stay until the evening's bitter end.

The manager had been so disgusted by his team's display on Tyneside – and dismayed by Eden Hazard's timekeeping – that he carried through his threat to reshuffle the pack in search of a response, albeit not with 11 changes but six, one of which was enforced, surely stinging the pride of the discarded.

Today we take for granted accurate timekeeping that 17th Century virtuosi could only dream of.

In return, Mr. Heuer provided Scuderia Ferrari with precision timekeeping equipment that enabled the team to record timings to within one-thousandth of a second.

It is not nuclear-powered, but simply a timekeeping device that uses the regular vibrations of a specific atom to keep time in somewhat the same way that a clock pendulum's movements mark the passage of time.

The watches, produced in southern California, use parts supplied by aerospace companies, including interwoven belts made from reinforced nylon and a quartz-based timekeeping mechanism that stores energy in a rechargeable lithium battery rather than a mainspring.

UTC serves to accommodate the timekeeping differences that arise between atomic time (which is derived from atomic clocks) and solar time (which is derived from astronomical measurements of Earth's rotation on its axis relative to the Sun).

To qualify for the seal, which is considered by many to be the finest expression of Swiss watchmaking, a timepiece must meet standards for aesthetic detail and timekeeping precision that are checked in a rigorous 12-step certification process.