The world's first atomic wrist watches came out on Kickstarter

Last year , news about the world's first wrist atomic watches from the company Bathys Hawaii appeared on Habré. This company developed the draft of the mentioned gadget, and in 2013 presented several working prototypes. Now the clock has acquired the final shape and design. In order to collect the necessary amount for the production of watches, the developers put the project on Kickstarter.



The amount required was not very large, about 40 thousand dollars, and in just a week the project had already collected 60 thousand US dollars. So the watch will soon really go into production.

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It is worth noting now the device can be obtained "only" for 6 thousand dollars. By the way, already 10 people have contributed to Kickstarter for exactly this amount. But after the release of a mass product (if such a thing can be massive), the price of the watch will be 12 thousand US dollars.



The clock is actually used atomic source Cesium 133, which is in the form of gas in a special capsule. The main electronic component is the SA.45s chip from Symmetricom. It is inside this chip that the capsule with cesium-133 is located.







In addition, photocells and the low-power laser are used. The laser heats gaseous cesium, the atoms of which are transferred from one energy level to another. The electronic component just captures the periods of electromagnetic radiation in the implementation of such a transition.



Note that as the power source uses a conventional lithium-ion battery. Unfortunately, the developers did not report how long the battery charge lasts. But this clock, as it should be for an atomic clock, is very accurate. For a thousand years, they can admit an error of one second.







Via kickstarter