Long scorned despite being cheaper and more accurate than their mechanical counterparts, quartz watches are finally getting some love. By Scott Cacciola Wristwatch enthusiasts can be persnickety. They ...

Before it came to represent mass production and dirt-cheap watches, quartz was once upon a time a cutting-edge technology. It was expensive at first, the wave of the future, and it nearly upended an ...

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 ...

What is a watch movement? There’s not a straightforward answer, so we’ll use an analogy: a movement is to a watch what an engine is to a car, what a heart is to a human body, and what a decentralised ...

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 ...