Starting in 1836, a former Royal Observatory employee named John Belville charged people an annual fee to use his pocket ...

From wandering and jumping hours to more unusual displays, we track how time has been told throughout horological history.

Clocks were driven by heavy weights ... there was still a lot of room for improvement. By nature, pocket watches spent much of their time in one of two positions: either stored upright in a ...

This isn’t the first time we’ve run through this debate ... consider the impact of the original wearables—the pocket watch and the wristwatch. Clocks began to transform everyday life ...

instead of the weight used in a clock; and as the spring acts equally well whatever be its position, a watch keeps time although carried in the pocket, or in a moving ship. In winding up a watch ...