Switzerland
Sand Origin
Dorfbach, Shongau
Random Sand Fact
What do sand and Swiss watches have in common? Quartz.
Quartz is one of the most common minerals found in sand. In a quartz watch, the same mineral is used for a very different property: when electrically stimulated, it vibrates at a highly stable frequency.
Those vibrations are used to measure time with great precision.
From grains of sand to keeping time.
