Tick, tock! The first Atomic watch has arrived via Kickstarter, and it will never ever give you the wrong time.

Almost two weeks ago, the world got a glimpse of the National Institute for Standards in Technology (NIST) F2 Atomic clock, but Bathys Hawaii, the technology and watchmaker company, has taken it a step further by actually revealing their prototype Atomic watch on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter this week. The Atomic watch/clock was first revealed in 2013.

The Atomic clock might be one of the most accurate time pieces built by humanity. The project was huge for NIST because they got citizens, governments, people from the industry and many more involved, Geek reported. John Patterson, CEO of Bathys Hawaii, however, seemed more casual about his project while discussing it on video of their Kickstarter page.

What can the atomic watch do besides be 100 percent accurate about time? The watch works by measuring the very definition of modern timekeeping. It uses radioactive emissions of a sample of caesium-133. This stable isotope is known to produce microwave emissions with a very predictable frequency of 9,192,631,770 vibrations per second. By counting the peaks in these emissions, the watch keeps time more accurately than any other watch on Earth, according to Geek.

There are some flaws, however. The atomic watch's design leaves a lot to be desired. It looks like a pager with a waterproof strap and is very bulky. Plus, at the moment it does not have many portable applications. Its military clock-on-chip technology is so big that it takes a large portion of the arm. In full atomic mode, it only gets a few hours of charge time. There is an internal scheduler switching the caesium clock on and off which maintains the accuracy and extends the battery life to over 30 hours, Geek reported.

In the Kickstarter video, Patterson says that he thought the Swiss watch company would have brought this out. He argues that the Swiss company has infinite resources, so why did they not create something like the atomic watch? While Patterson's watch is in its prototype phase, he beams with confidence that the it will be the future. The atomic watch is supposed to give uninterrupted time for 1,000 years.

Bathys Hawaii has been making watches for eight years, and they claim they appeal to fans of technology and that they want to be a thorn in the side of the Swiss brands, perhaps meaning that they will always be Swiss' competitor and they will always be work to be better.

Six people who donated $6,000.00 to the project will receive the first atomic watches manufactured.

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