My ex told me about this back in the early 90s. I was talking to two self proclaimed watch experts. They didn’t believe me, and tried to convince me that the quartz was actually the glass protecting the watch making me look and feel like a jackass. Than you for validating what I knew all along.

@censortube8838

3 жыл бұрын

I think they were messing with you

@gracefitzgerald2227

3 жыл бұрын

@@censortube8838 You could smell the hubris amongst these gentleman. My pettiness knows no bounds, I took great joy seeing their crestfallen faces after having them watch this video.

@toupsclassroomtoupsclassro9557

2 жыл бұрын

Well Grace maybe one was your X; seems to me maybe they were just having a bit of fun!

@J-dew

2 жыл бұрын

You should get back with him

@gracefitzgerald2227

2 жыл бұрын

@@J-dew 😝. What he had in brains he lacked in ambition. Thanks for the giggle.

How comes his shirt is awesomely hd but his face stays 480p? awesome video btw.

@GustavoMaciel

9 жыл бұрын

he's just like that in real life

@PureGamingTV

8 жыл бұрын

koifishstudio Simple answer: Video compression.

@TheJellybeanDrifter

8 жыл бұрын

+PureGamingTV Bingo

@kellinquinn6526

7 жыл бұрын

Since his shirt is so detailed it's probably taking up a majority of the bitrate and therefore less of the bitrate can be used for his face.

@Digital111

7 жыл бұрын

James was busy and couldn't film this video so they used an actor and motion capture They don't have the budget of Weta or Industrial Light and Magic so the CGI looks a bit fake.

Finally someone who explains the oscillation of a quartz crystal and adds the small detail that the frequency is not intrinsic to the material itself, but rather dependant on the shape it's cut in. Also, the "tuning fork" is usually cut out to be a bit faster, then the tips are covered in gold, which slows it down. Then the gold is whittled away until the quartz is calibrated. The clocks at 2:53 have 13-hour cycles, by the way.

His shirt is stealing all the HD bandwidth, giving him a low-res SD head haha. Just how compression works. Pretty funny though. :>

no wonder I keep finding soul gems in dwarven machines...

@cabelleades760

7 жыл бұрын

holy shit youre right

@michaelbauers8800

7 жыл бұрын

lol; so why don't the do an ES prequel when dwarves are still around?

@gabumonboys

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Bauers it would ruin the mysteriousness of the dwemer.

@arnulfovasquez7583

7 жыл бұрын

The Mad Hatter Cleaver!

@massawassa115

3 жыл бұрын

Deep lore

There are millions of little people in a Quartz watch making it work. They have cities and making the watch work is their job. The round battery is their sun. When you let the battery die or throw away the watch, think of what you are doing!

@MrShabbaaaa

6 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of a rick and morty episode.

@karlsalisbury8852

6 жыл бұрын

I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

@stevek8829

5 жыл бұрын

And our universe is only a spec of dust on a policeman's uniform in the next size up. Someday it will get washed.

James May finally got a chance to talk about boring stuff in peace without the other two butting in.

Come on now! everyone knows that it's little teams of magical gremlins inside the watch pulling levers and stuff to make it work.

@raymondo162

9 жыл бұрын

John Uskglass I had exactly the same thing happen to me. Exactly the same - except for the animals being slaughtered.

@Kneedragon1962

9 жыл бұрын

John Uskglass Little buggers in mine seem inclined to go on strike. I think they want me to sacrifice a chook. At least, I hope it's a chook, they're not getting a whole goat...

@XrisD147

6 жыл бұрын

Well I hope they've got a good union.

@folksurvival

3 жыл бұрын

Stupid comment.

What a nice man, I hope he gets to present an awesome TV show for 175 episodes someday! 😁

@tomelifeisjustonebig

4 ай бұрын

I feel he would do well on a car show.

time keeping from Captain Slow!

@raymondo162

9 жыл бұрын

Windup

Thanks for such information!

Nice n simple explanation thank you

great video..perfect explanation

Jolly good show, bro. No seriously, this was fascinating. I actually got here 'googling' what the little Quartz meant on my watch face.

I have had not known that. Thank you for that bit of information.

Awesome video thanks

great well explained

Thanks for the answer! ^^

Perfectly explained!

Thank you sir

I'm glad that you're not being annoying with constantly telling us to subscribe any more

Fascinating stuff.

Awesome. Ive always wanted to know that

Interesting how one of James' favorite watches is an old mechanical Timex. I started getting interested in their watches just recently (picked up a Timex 80 because I wanted a retro-style digital watch) and would really love to find one of their vintage mechanical watches. I've yet to find one of them at any of the watch stores I've been to.

@snoweh1

7 жыл бұрын

Look on eBay, that's where I got a vintage Timex from the 80s. It's mechanical and analogue, but I've seen digital ones too. Consider the Casio F91W if you want a classic digital watch. Iconic, and $10 brand new on eBay.

@Girder3

7 жыл бұрын

I probably should. Hopefully I don't end up hitting the same brick wall I do on Amazon and find out what I want won't ship where I live. I actually own the Casio A158W, which is the stainless steel bracelet version of the F91W. However, I've found that I prefer to wear the Timex 80 because of the better bracelet and backlight. Though what I'd really want is a vintage-style digital watch with an actual stainless steel case like they used to have. Maybe with a red LED display as well...

@snoweh1

7 жыл бұрын

Girder3 I sometimes have trouble with Amazon shipping to Australia, but eBay generally isn't a problem.

SO cool. Who knew how cool everyday things were. THANK YOU

Of course James still has all his watches.

@manuelhung7571

Жыл бұрын

James still has all his old toilet paper too. He doesn't get many visitors 😂.

I can listen to James forever.

Good one

His shirt gave me car-sick! lol... I miss Top gear... that's why I am here...

@alanisblake9826

8 жыл бұрын

same 😥😥

Jeremy Clarkson would be asleep by the end of this

i was really into watches two minutes ago. that changed.

THANK YOU SO MUCH --MASTER

I love mechanical watches. It's just so much ingenuity condensed in a tiny case. Springs, gears, an escapement, a balance wheel, sometimes a tourbillon. It's like gear porn :-P

Yes! It returns on 30th June!

Thanks Ed :)

agree

I love the guys over at top gear, but I have to say of the three, James is my favorite.

Excellent excellent excellent

I certainly agree most with his choices of car.

A combination of both, and more. The biggest danger is that it will disrupt the heart; for that, the electricity needs to pass across the heart, so path is important. There needs to be enough voltage to penetrate into the body (skin is a modest insulator), so voltage is important. And there needs to be a minimum current, about 0.05 amps I've read, to cause the heart to fibrillate (like a seizure); currents ~>1A stop the heart entirely, which is a bit easier to recover from than fibrillation.

Agreed, James from Top Gear, and Morna Fisken from Headsqueeze would be my top two.

I can too... he just talks in such a intelligent way

How do you message James with a question?

Great

The resonance for the quartz oscillator is more complex than simply passing a current through a crystal. The crystal is part of an amplified resonant feedback circuit. The frequency can be controlled or pulled slightly through the use of a trimmer circuit for greater accuracy. The output is counted down to 1 Hz/sec. Most watches use 32.768 kHz. The very expensive watches use higher frequencies and thermo compensation for greater accuracy.

@lifted_above

6 жыл бұрын

Question is, can that vibrating crystal be heard by the natural ear, even if a child listened?

@cldream

6 жыл бұрын

Lifted_Above Probably not. Even if it's oscillating loud enough it's way beyond the typical range of human hearing.

@danadrian2752

6 жыл бұрын

Lifted_Above humans hear from 20hz to 20,000 hz. The 32,768hz is far beyond our hearing range.

This man really is a genius!

I remember an ad for Timex watches where they put the watch on a horse's fetlock and it was ridden fast on a muddy track. Then they scrape the mud off the watch and it's still ticking.

@MasterBaker2020

9 жыл бұрын

Victorinox has something like that, check out the INOX watch, it's absolutely amazing😀

@johnsain

5 жыл бұрын

:It takes a Licking,....but keeps on Ticking"

Great vid. Looking for the translation part though; how does the single second pulse get generated? Is that a "microchip" function...just puts a "charge" a second at a lead that an inductor pushes to a gear?

@cldream

6 жыл бұрын

There's electronics that gets the electric pulses from the crystal via the piezoelectric effect (movement⇄electricity) and divides it down.

Why do we response to pain and grief by shedding tears, what so special about this biological function that makes us feel better.

This guy is a genius and on another note, is it weird that throughout the entire clip i was just waiting for a Pagani Zonda or a Bugatti Veyron to just randomly pop out engine screaming into the apex of a track doing 120 mph ? lol

@Igladeon345

9 жыл бұрын

Woah 120mph dangerous! Many do that on the motorway. Both of those cars can go over 200mph.

@philipcooper8297

9 жыл бұрын

Into the apex of a track? What are you talking about?

@Igladeon345

9 жыл бұрын

Its not the point marveling at 120mph?

Lol at the Matrix code displayed in that CRT 3:00

This is tantamount to magic

I used to have a Casio watch with a hidden extra feature - if you held down both buttons B and C for 15 seconds, then you calibrate its speed by up to ±15 seconds per month. (As it happens it used to gain ½s a day until I discovered this feature.) Sadly I lost it when I took it off because I was getting too sweaty playing a video game.

Thanks James. Piezoelectrics are also used in ultrasonographs.

Good vibrations : ) It's so cute that you saved all your watches. I got my first watch in 3rd grade. It had a mouse face and his eyes moved up & down with the second hand. I took it off, laid it on my desk at school, got up for some reason, leaving behind the watch and like yours, mine was stolen. : ( Fun show.

cool video

That is pretty amazing that quartz does that. What other materials have such weird electric functions?

@duffman18

2 жыл бұрын

Well amber has a sort of electric charge to it. That's where we get the word "electricity" from in the first place, it was the ancient Greek word for amber, the orange tree resin that hardens, and is then used for gemstones in jewellery.

Great.

He's talking about watches, but he isn't even wearing one.

Can Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson please make a guest appearance on Head Squeeze?? That would be awesomely fantastic :):)

What is it that kills you when electrocuted, the voltage or the current?

Oh, I had no idea, thanks.

I used to have a red LED watch too

I have a question. May you describe how televisions work? Old and new? Like L.E.D., L.C.D., Plasma, Projector.

This brushed over the part about how traditional timepieces work. eg How does the pendulum on a grandfather clock stay in time?

@RizhEdits

8 жыл бұрын

the period of one oscillation of the pendulum will always remain the same because it isn't dependent of the amplitude.

James please talk more!

He speaks clear and a beautiful english. I know be ause I'am a Hungarian.😊

It happens to any watch that isn't plastic or coated with something. The same thing happens to metal jewelry. Gold plating will just flake off, stainless steel lasts slightly longer, and copper stains everything green, but lasts the longest out of all the metals. The watch I'm wearing right now is a Timex expedition coated with clear nail polish. I've had it for 4 months now, and it's almost time for a 3rd coat of nail polish. My dad has the same problem. Maybe a Rolex will last longer.

How would they know that the quartz vibrates in regular intervals if to measure it, you would need some other accurate time keeper to do that? And for that that one as well, and so on and so on.

That pun at 3:31

What a boss.

At 2:33 you say that a second hand on a mechanical clock moves smoothly - but why? Aren't the mechanical clocks also regulated by an object with a period of 1 second?

You’re gonna have to Tear my mechanical watch Out of my cold dead hands

@TransistorBased

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody said they're going away anytime soon, just getting better 😉 Did you see the one Zenith made with the weird vibrating silicon thing? It was supposed to be a crazy high rate

Nice, quartz watch is like an electronic musical instrument with oscillator going at 32,768Hz. And it is a tunning for after all.

Grand tour

Thank you, very educational.

time is money friend

@ilraeimoonstrike972

7 жыл бұрын

i dont got it, you dont want it

Can you please explain how come we can cut glass under water by scissors? Thank you!

of course it's james may that explains this stuff

Mr. James May could you please do one about the 24hr of LeMans? :)

The same way an exhaust silencer does it allows the gasses inside the chamber to exit at a slower rate.

Quartz watches are more accurate, but mechanical watches have soul.

@HaasGrotesk

3 жыл бұрын

No they don't. They are as mechanical as quartz watches. It always amuses me how "watch aficionados" try to convince themselves and others that "quartz is soulless, simple, cheap to make" and that mechanical watches "have a soul, complicated, expensive". when it's simply not true. At the end of the day, you are wearing something that barely keeps time. Take the most expensive and accurate mechanical watch and take the cheapest quartz you can find and the quartz outperforms the mechanical all day every day. I love mechanical watches but stop trying to convince people that they are something they are not. It's just old tech that we love because it's old. It has nothing else.

@jakekaywell5972

3 жыл бұрын

@@HaasGrotesk Why do people love classic cars with flathead engines, vacuum tube radios, or anything else that is objectively outdated then? To discount or otherwise not consider the intangible "Factor X" in this equation is fallacious. It is going to be a part of the draw for these old technologies.

@HaasGrotesk

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakekaywell5972 I honestly don't understand your comment.

@jakekaywell5972

3 жыл бұрын

@@HaasGrotesk Factor X is a catch-all term for the "soul" that the other commentator was talking about. It's not rational. It makes no logical sense. However, it is still an important part of why people care about these technologies.

except stores don't use manual card readers while most people wear watches and enjoy them as time pieces as well as an accessory.

That was very cool. What's the difference in quartz in a timepiece and the quartz lock on my turntables?

seiko astro is still quite exspensive for a quartz watch today :p

@lifted_above

6 жыл бұрын

Seiko continues to innovate. Wonderful company.

its because that phrase usually contains 'once' between 'it' and 'was'

Let James May do all the Headsqueeze! He's a lot better at it!!

What about atomic clocks? Like raidio active ceasium.

I had a red LED one too, given we are the same age this is not surprising, but I have no idea what happened to it..

Well I wanted to know... Now I do 😁

James May, will we ever be able to replicate perpetual motion, or anything close to it (for example, something that would run for years without needing a refill of some kind)? My friend in my class is always planning a plan for a machine for perpetual motion, mostly including magnets, and whenever he presents his idea, our physics teacher explains why it won't work.

@bigrigJim

6 ай бұрын

people much smarter than your friend have tried and failed. But tell him to keep trying , you never know he might come up with something.

and knowing is half the battle.

All things considered, I favor mechanical clocks and watches over quartz. Quartz may be more accurate, but there always comes the day when the battery dies, and then it's only accurate twice a day (whatever time it happens to stop on) until you get another. A good mechanical timepiece, provided it's wound up and is serviced periodically, can theoretically run forever. Purely a personal preference in end, guess I'm old fashioned.

@Drinkyoghurt

8 жыл бұрын

+Shipwright1918 All things considered, mechanical watches are more a hobby thing than a reliable timepiece really. They require expensive maintenance every so often (compared to a cheap battery swap) and have expensive parts which can break. As mentioned in this video they are also not very accurate compared to quartz watches. I absolutely love my Casio Quartz watches, they've lasted well over 5 years without any maintenance and are almost bulletproof (rated Water Resistant, yet dived 20M with it many times). Mechanical watches are pieces of art really.

@Shipwright1918

8 жыл бұрын

+Drinkyoghurt Depends on the watch. The old 17 jewel railroad watches were legally required to be accurate within 30 seconds a week (for people's lives literally depended on their accuracy and reliability) no matter how they were oriented, and to this day, they are considered some of the finest kinds of watch ever made. Personally I'm happy for you that you've got a good quartz watch, if you like it and it works, good on ya. I'm still going to stick with my mechanical pocket watch. It works, it keeps time, and you say mechanical watches are works of art, I like having a bit of functional art in my pocket.

@msec109

7 жыл бұрын

"Quartz may be more accurate, but there always comes the day when the battery dies" - I think you are wrong here. My cheap Timex's battery lasted 3+ years, it showed time, day and date. Same with other brands. Citizen produces solar/light powered watches, which will last even more. I am also a fan of mechanical/automatic watches, would love own it one day, but because it a piece of beauty. (Not for reliability/accuracy.) It will also need service if you use it for 3 years.

@Shipwright1918

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, but at the end of those three years, the battery did die, correct? So I'm not quite wrong on that point. I will admit I wasn't aware that there were solar powered quartz watches out there, neat idea! If you really want a mechanical watch,, they can be had for $20-40 on Amazon if you really want one, some of them are really quite beautiful too. That's where I got mine at Christmas, and it's still running strong to this day. I will eventually have to take it for servicing, that's true, but usually it's much cheaper to just throw away a quartz watch instead of trying to repair it should it ever conk out beyond a dead battery. Ultimately it's a personal choice. I like mechanical watches and other old tech like steam engines and typewriters, and I like to use said old tech. I could've opted for an ornamental watch to sit and look pretty up on a shelf, but that wouldn't have done me any good out when I'm out working and I need to know what time it is, so I chose a plain full-hunter mechanical watch from AMPM24 with Arabic numerals, and I use it as a practical timepiece. It works for that purpose (a watch is supposed to tell time after all), I bought it for that purpose, so I have no issue with it. Purely a personal choice of mine. If you love quartz, have at 'em and enjoy them just as I do with mechanica watches.

@snoweh1

7 жыл бұрын

You can get fantastic cheap automatic watches, something like a Seiko 5 for ~$60 USD. They don't typically need a service until there's a problem. I have a Timex from the 80s that gains maybe 5 minutes every 3 days, depending on the orientation I leave it at when it's off. It's a quick fix and not bad for a 30+ year old watch. Don't hesitate looking into mechanical watches if it's something that interests you. There's plenty of cheap, quality options. Seiko is a great place to start, Japanese watches don't carry the premium "Swiss heritage" price, yet they retain all the quality.

does a quartz replacement of battery/ repairment cost much? is it worth it?

@josephthomas439

Жыл бұрын

About 12bucks or so at a local jewelery shop in my area to replace a watch battery

i couldn´t stop looking at james shirt ...

it would really be interesting to see jeremy clarkson come on this show and try to explain things

Why in most cases do we response to pain and grief by shedding teats

Technically, it would be idiolect but I see your point. I first thought there was something wrong with my headphones.

I dare you to make a 10 hour video of James May talking continuously and post it on KZread.

His shirt made me blind 0_0