Hoptroff London

Hoptroff London
Private
Founded 2010
Founders Richard Hoptroff
Headquarters London, England
Products Watches
Website hoptroff.com

Hoptroff London is a watch manufacturer based in London, England, reputable for its atomic clock and high accuracy watches.[1][2] In 2013, it became the first company[3] to use an atomic clock in place of a balance spring or a quartz crystal to deliver a higher accuracy.[4][5]

History

Hoptroff London, founded in 2010 by Richard Hoptroff,[6] a physicist with the original intention of supplying smart mechanical watch movements to the industry.[7] In 2012, the company incorporated Bluetooth Low Energy technology[4] to its watches for the movement and sync with the mobile phones for configuration in order to display internet connected information.[6][8] Hoptroff London kept the manufacturing in-house to focus on the high precision and innovative complications.

In April 2013, the company unveiled its first atomic timepiece in London, which conceptualized it as a new variety of time regulation devices in clocks and watches, that could be placed alongside the balance spring, quartz crystal and the pendulum.[5] After the launch, the brand gained reputation for the most accurate watch ever produced[9] and was mentioned in several media outlets, such as New York Times, Engadget, The Telegraph and others.[10] In 2015, Hoptroff London launched a classic quartz watch range with a claim to being the first watchmaker to achieve better than one second per year accuracy in its quartz watches.[11][12]

Technology

Hoptroff London watches are advertised by the company as "The most accurate timepieces in the world”. It’s atomic timepieces use chip scale atomic clock technology,[13] where a small vessel of Caesium 133 is exposed to 130 °C.[14] A laser is used to excite the atoms and a microwave resonator which causes the hyperfine transition frequency of the atoms. The resultant watch after this process has a higher accuracy of 1.5 seconds every thousand years.[15][16]

However, the technology used its quartz timepieces is still unknown to the public.[14]

Collections

Hoptroff London offers three lines of watches, labeled Classic, Sports and Atomic.[17] The company claims its lines of watches are accurate from fifteen seconds a year to 1.5 seconds per millennium.[11] Its No.10 pocket watch is acknowledged as the most accurate watch in the world.[8][18][19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ STEPHEN DOIG (6 October 2015). "Hop stuff: meet the maker of the atomic watch". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Timothy Barber (7 November 2013). "A true original on Clink Street". City A.M. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Kate Doherty (31 July 2013). "Hoptroff to unveil atomic pocket watch at Salon QP". Watchpro. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  4. 1 2 Daniel Cooper (1 May 2013). "Hoptroff's atomic pocket watch is the ultimate rich guy accessory". Engadget. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  5. 1 2 Tony Smith (1 May 2013). "Brit horologist hammers out ‘first’ ATOMIC-POWERED watch". The Register. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  6. 1 2 Chris Hall (17 April 2014). "Call that a smartwatch? THIS is a smartwatch...". Yahoo News. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  7. ↑ Chris Newlands (7 November 2014). "The Hotblack Stockmarket, a British-made smartwatch". Financial Times. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  8. 1 2 FELICIA CRADDOCK (18 March 2015). "Dreaming Designs for Land and Space". New York Times. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  9. ↑ Judy Mottl (8 March 2015). "Apple Watch Edition Has Serious Competition And Its Name Is Hoptroff No.8 Diary Watch". Tech Times. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "The Watch That Tracks Your Favorite Stock". Bloomberg. 19 November 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  11. 1 2 "A weekend of firsts at SalonQP". 12 November 2014. PAUL O'NEIL. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  12. ↑ "SalonQP: fine-watch fair returns". The Daily Telegraph. 14 October 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "HotBlack ― The smartwatch dedicated to football". 29 June 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  14. 1 2 "About Hoptroff". Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "British "C" Power – The Hoptroff No. 10 Atomic Pocket Watch". Beckertime. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  16. ↑ Paul O’Neil (26 August 2013). "Lab - HOPTROFF - The world’s most accurate watch". Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  17. ↑ Rob Corder (21 January 2015). "Hoptroff takes all black smart watches to market". Watchpro. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  18. ↑ ARTHUR TOUCHOT (24 February 2014). "Watchmakers Slow to Adopt 3-D Printing". New York Times. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  19. ↑ Julian Horsey (24 June 2014). "HotBlack SmartWatch Keeps You Updated With Your Teams Scores (video)". Retrieved 16 October 2015.

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