stackyFACTSInstead of winding tiny gears, modern cheap timepieces run electricity through a microscopic piece of quartz carved into the shape of a tuning fork. It vigorously vibrates exactly thirty-two thousand seven hundred sixty-eight times a second to ensure you are somehow still late for work.
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