Too often, quartz is disregarded as a cheap, passionless way to tell time. While mechanical watches are put on a pedestal as complicated high art (and to be fair, in many cases they are), quartz is ...

WRISTWATCH enthusiasts can be persnickety. They often have strong opinions about whether bezels should be bidirectional. They can cite the differences between ETA and Sellita movements. They will ...

The movement is the engine of the watch—it's what keeps it ticking. Below, we've broken down the main three types and their benefits. Powered by a battery and known for being super accurate, quartz ...

The story of the mechanical timepiece has always been one of relentless progress towards accuracy, usually by tiny, gradual increments. From Christiaan Huygens’ first watch to the observatory tests of ...

A smoothly sweeping seconds hand is often used by a budding watch fancier as an indicator of quality. If you are close enough to tell the time, you can see whether the hand ticks once per second, or ...

No matter how broad the watch market can seem, there are two distinct types of timepiece: digital and analogue. These can also be referred to as having a quartz movement (digital) or a mechanical ...

In a small, sunlit room outside the wooded northern hamlet of Morioka, Japan, a dozen or so watchmakers wearing white coats and caps sit in monastic silence at custom-sized Iwayado wooden desks. Each ...