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Early (and modern) quartz watches used digital circuitry to step down the 32,768 Hz crystal vibration to the 1 Hz signal used to step the second hand, but were never called "digital watches." The watch I am wearing is called an analog watch, although I bought it recently and I am sure that all the
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During the period of 1960 to 1980, a reasonably popular form of household clock, often found in clock radios, used a traditional synchronous clock motor and an all-mechanical system of linkages to flip sets of page-like flaps; one set, bearing the numbers from 1 to 12, indicated the hour, and
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another, numbered from 00 to 59, the minute. Every minute a flap would fall with a slight audible click. These clocks were invariably known as "digital clocks."
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The designation of analog or digital refers to the design of the dial (or readout if you like), not to the technology used to drive it.
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