Sentence examples for timepiece from inspiring English sources

Third-party developers are expected to embrace the new platform in a similar manner to the iPhone and iPad, creating bespoke software for the timepiece.

The Pebble Time is essentially a reinvention of the classic Casio watch – a simple timepiece that displays the time, obviously, with messages and alerts pushed via a gentle vibration to the wrist from a connected smartphone.

Few, however, can match the precision of a Nivarox balance spring.Swatch became the watchmaker to watch in the 1980s, when it merged two weak companies and launched Swatch watches as a relatively cheap brand (though not nearly as cheap as a typical Chinese timepiece).

Breguet's timepiece (as shown in the first picture) rivals digital watches for accuracy (-1 to +3 seconds a day), regardless of its position.

According to a report in this week's Science, they used an even more accurate clock to detect a change in tick rates resulting from a difference in speeds of as little as 36 kph (24 mph) and a difference in height of less than a metre.Obviously not even the finest Swiss timepiece can boast the accuracy required to detect such minute shifts.

According to Tim Cook, the boss of Apple, who in 2011 replaced the firm's late founder, Steve Jobs, the new watch "is the most advanced timepiece ever created".

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The timepiece goes on sale on April 24th at an entry-level price of $349.

The classic form for a timepiece, which made the mechanical clock possible, was the verge escapement, probably invented in 13th-century Europe.

About 1707 Tompion was made a freeman of the city of Bath, where he is believed to have sought relief for an ailment, and he presented the city with a month-going timepiece that is still in use at the Pump Room.