Narrative: Peugeot watch.

Peugeot watch. My father gave me this watch as a birthday gift when I turned 18. He purchased it from Filenes in the Enfield Square, in Enfield CT. The battery has been replaced three times. Currently the watch band is broken.

Wristwatches that mixed microchip technology with quartz crystals are the standard.The microchip is utilized to send signals to the dial of the watch on a continual basis. The use of quartz in watches makes use of a long-known type of electricity known as piezoelectricity. Piezoelectricity is the current which flows from or through a piece of quartz when the quartz is put under electrical and/or mechanical pressure (piezo is from the Greek verb meaning "to press"). The heart of a quartz watch is a tiny sliver of quartz. In a natural form, quartz is first loaded into a giant kettle or autoclave. Hanging from the top of the autoclave are seeds or tiny particles of quartz with the desired crystalline structure. An alkaline material is pumped into the bottom of the autoclave, and the autoclave is heated to a high temperature, dissolving the quartz in the hot alkaline liquid, evaporating it, and depositing it on the seeds. After about 75 days, the chamber can be opened, and the newly grown quartz crystals can be removed and cut into the correct proportions.