Have you been getting an earful from your watch collector friends about “complications” and have positively no idea what they ...

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 ...

Founded as G.F.J & Cie. by 22-year-old watchmaking apprentice Georges Favre-Jacot in Le Locle, Switzerland, the company began with the vision of creating the very first, fully-integrated watchmaking ...

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 ...

Zenith’s Defy Zero Gravity watch isn’t just a fancy name. It actually does defy gravity. Its patented escapement is akin to the tourbillon, which was designed to compensate for the effects of gravity ...

The new 7340/1R is the first watch with complications in the Twenty~4 collection. Prop Stylist: Miako Katoh; photo by Brian Klutch There’s a new movement sweeping through town in the form of Patek ...

Ulysse Nardin has introduced a new skeletonized timepiece that it says is the world’s lightest mechanical dive watch. It is appropriately called the “Diver [AIR]” because only 20% of the watch ...

We’ve been looking at some of the very best watches in various classes lately, including chronographs, tourbillons, dive watches, travel watches and even the most expensive watches. Today, we are ...

Welcome to Brand Breakdown, a series of comprehensive yet easy-to-digest guides to your favorite companies, with insights and information you won’t find on the average About page. Breitling, ...