wristwatch

In households, they have become commonplace, powering remote controls, hearing aids, toys, electric tea lights, wristwatches, greeting cards that play music and other familiar items.

Not once did he check his phone or wristwatch as the young photographers discussed their work.

“But before affordable wristwatches and smartphones, people relied on clocks in public spaces,” Mendez wrote in an essay for the city’s Department of Neighborhoods in 2022.

Using radio waves, atomic clocks continuously send signals that synchronize our computers, phones and wristwatches.

“This wristwatch, for instance, marks the exact moment in time when history changed forever.”