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Soriku, that happens with all clock. There are clocks that use vibrating piece of quartz to measure seconds. Certain number of vibrations = a second. Or something like that.

There are different ways to measure a second, not just quartz, there are atomic clocks too (those are the most precise I think). There are several factors that can affect the precision of a clock.