Researchers have created an oscillator that could silence the mechanical watch
 

You're running late to a meeting, glaring at your wrist in disbelief that it's fifteen minutes past the hour. Are you really that late? Lifting the watch to your ear you hear the all-too familiar tick of its internal mechanisms. Yes, it works -- and...

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/19/q...=rss_truncated