Hoptroff
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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 2010 |
| Founders | Richard Hoptroff, Simon Kenny, David Hulbert |
| Headquarters | London, England |
| Products | Traceable Time as a Service (TTaaS) |
| Website | hoptroff.com |
Hoptroff is a provider of distributed timing services, based in London, England.
The company was previously a watch manufacturer based in London, England, known for its atomic clock and high accuracy watches.[1][2][3][4][5]
History
[edit | edit source]Hoptroff was founded in 2010 as Hoptroff London 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]
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 a 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]
In 2015, the company repositioned itself as Hoptroff London Limited and started work building a proprietary network of timing hubs, incorporating Grand Master atomic clocks, in London, New York and Tokyo.
In 2020, Hoptroff successfully raised £982,700 through crowd funding, with the goal towards developing a global distributed timing network.[13]
Technology
[edit | edit source]Hoptroff London watches are advertised by the company as "The most accurate timepieces in the world”. Its atomic timepieces use chip scale atomic clock technology,[14] where a small vessel of Caesium 133 is exposed to 130 °C.[15] 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.[16][17]
However, the technology used its quartz timepieces is still unknown to the public.[15]
As of 2015, the company moved away from watch production to focus on high accuracy time synchronization software for companies operating across distributed infrastructure.
See also
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