Mechanical watch

Rarity: Uncommon

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Invention

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork.

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