Quartz or manual-wound movements used to be the only option for small watches, but now brands such as Bulgari, Piaget and Chopard are putting automatic mechanisms in them. By Carol Besler Automatic ...

Whether it’s sunglasses, denim, kitchen knives, socks or any of a wide range of products, a “Made in Japan” label today generally means a premium quality product. The country is known for ...

A watchmaker skeletonizes a watch by carving away the metal from the bridges and plates to the bare bones, revealing the tiny gears and levers that make a mechanical watch tick. Watch aficionados love ...

The watch industry has undergone gradual but important change over its centuries-long history, and a big part of that change ...

When you think of open-source hardware, you probably think of electronics and maker tools– RepRap, Arduino, Adafruit, et cetera. Yet open source is an ethos and license, and is in no way limited to ...

It’s not often that watch enthusiasts get really excited about new or re-issued movements. So here’s a bit about why Omega’s 321 caliber, of all things, is newsworthy: the high-flying history of Omega ...

Professional watchmaker Ryan Jewell breaks down two different Carpenter watches; one watch with Japanese movement and another with Swiss movement. working in New York City. Today we're gonna break ...

For the want of research funding, which the team at the advanced materials department at Manchester Metropolitan University are now trying to raise, the watch industry could be at the tipping point ...

Grand Seiko is no stranger to groundbreaking, sometimes industry-shattering, innovations. This is, after all, the company which in 1969 sparked the quartz crisis when it unveiled the Quartz Astron—a ...

The luxury brand is planning new uses for its 12.3-millimeter Piccolissimo movement. By Nazanin Lankarani In June, Bulgari presented its vision of the Garden of Eden, called Giardino Dell’Eden ...

Within a constellation of extraordinary watches, a peerless collection emerges for women who set and live by their own rules.