Anyone who checks their watch just before midnight on New Year’s - TopicsExpress



          

Anyone who checks their watch just before midnight on New Year’s Eve wants to know the exact time for the big countdown – accurate to the nearest second. Although the time has long been determined by official atomic clocks, there are other special sites of precision timekeeping. Since September 2006, the grounds of the restored observatory in Glashütte, a town in the German state of Saxony, has been home to the only test centre in accordance with the German chronometer standard. It is operated by jewellery and watch retailer Wempe, which cooperates with the state measurement and calibration authorities of Thuringia and Saxony. Read more in English: https://deutschland.de/en/topic/business/innovation-technology/germanys-centre-of-precision-timekeeping Read more in German: https://deutschland.de/de/topic/wirtschaft/innovation-technik/das-zentrum-praeziser-deutscher-uhren
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:00:00 +0000

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