The tuning fork drive also eliminated the tick-tick-tick sound. In their advertising, Bulova actually tried using this as a selling point, despite a 360Hz tone being a lot more audible than a ...

That is, the fundamental mode frequency of the tuning fork quartz crystal can be divided up using the so-called T Flip-Flops or Ripple Counters. Since each T Flip-Flop can halve the frequency of the ...