Hoptroff

Hoptroff was founded in 2010 as Hoptroff London by Richard Hoptroff, a physicist with the original intention of supplying smart mechanical watch movements to the industry.{{cite news | url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fb343c90-5dfb-11e4-b7a2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3oilD4Q3O | title=The Hotblack Stockmarket, a British-made smartwatch | work= Financial Times| date=7 November 2014 | accessdate=16 October 2015 | author=Chris Newlands}} In 2012, the company incorporated Bluetooth Low Energy technology to its watches for the movement and sync with the mobile phones for configuration in order to display internet connected information.{{cite news | url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/richard-hoptroff-and-his-incredible-luxury-smartwatches---designed-in-london-144007970.html#aBg21FH | title=Call that a smartwatch? THIS is a smartwatch... | work=Yahoo News | date=17 April 2014 | accessdate=16 October 2015 | author=Chris Hall}}{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/style/international/dreaming-designs-for-land-and-space.html | title=Dreaming Designs for Land and Space | work=New York Times | date=18 March 2015 | accessdate=16 October 2015 | author=FELICIA CRADDOCK}}

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. After the launch, the brand gained a reputation for the most accurate watch ever produced{{cite news | url=http://www.techtimes.com/articles/38171/20150308/apple-watch-edition-has-serious-competition-and-its-name-is-hoptroff-no-8-diary-watch.htm | title=Apple Watch Edition Has Serious Competition And Its Name Is Hoptroff No.8 Diary Watch | work=Tech Times | date=8 March 2015 | accessdate=16 October 2015 | author=Judy Mottl}} and was mentioned in several media outlets, such as New York Times, Engadget, The Telegraph and others.{{cite news | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2014-11-19/the-watch-that-tracks-your-favorite-stock | title=The Watch That Tracks Your Favorite Stock | work=Bloomberg | date=19 November 2014 | accessdate=16 October 2015}} 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.{{cite web | url=http://en.worldtempus.com/article/industry-news/exhibitions-weekend-firsts-salonqp-2301041 | title=A weekend of firsts at SalonQP | publisher=PAUL O'NEIL | work=12 November 2014 | accessdate=16 October 2015}}{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/watches/11527/salonqp-fine-watch-fair-returns.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131025024144/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/watches/11527/salonqp-fine-watch-fair-returns.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=25 October 2013 | title=SalonQP: fine-watch fair returns |work=The Daily Telegraph | date=14 October 2013 | accessdate=16 October 2015}}

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.{{Cite web|title=Hoptroff London Limited successfully raised £200,000 - Apr 2019.|url=https://www.crowdcube.com/companies/hoptroff-london-limited/pitches/bgV7zZ|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.crowdcube.com|language=en}}

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,{{cite news | url=http://www.themalaymailonline.com/tech-gadgets/article/hotblack-the-smartwatch-dedicated-to-football | title=HotBlack ― The smartwatch dedicated to football | date=29 June 2014 | accessdate=16 October 2015}} where a small vessel of Caesium 133 is exposed to 130 °C.{{cite web | url=http://www.hoptroff.com/pages/about-us | title=About Hoptroff | accessdate=16 October 2015}} 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.{{cite news | url=https://beckertime.com/blog/british-c-power-hoptroff-10-atomic-pocket-watch/ | title=British "C" Power – The Hoptroff No. 10 Atomic Pocket Watch | work=Beckertime | date=13 November 2013 | accessdate=16 October 2015}}{{cite news | url=http://www.europastar.com/magazine/features/1004086535-lab-hoptroff-the-world-s-most-accurate-watch.html | title=Lab - HOPTROFF - The world’s most accurate watch | date=26 August 2013 | accessdate=16 October 2015 | author=Paul O’Neil}}

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

As of 2015, the company moved away from watch production to focus on high accuracy time synchronization software for companies operating across distributed infrastructure.

• Bluetooth low energy
• Chip-scale atomic clock

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• [http://www.hoptroff.com/ Official website]

Category:Watch manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom