> > I can remember when you could quiet a restless baby by holding a watch up to his ear. It doesn't work anymore. I think we may have a new generation who won't know the sound of a ticking clock or a rotary dial phone.
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> Here's an odd thing, Howard. My watch ticks, even though it's a quartz watch. Why?

It's not the quartz that ticks, it's the movement. If you see the second hand jerking forward every second (or quarter second), that's the noise you hear.

Okay, technically the quartz does tick, but you'd never hear it at 32 kHz.

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