Smartwatches and fitness trackers have dominated the timepiece market for a few years, but recently, there has been a revived interest in mechanical watches. While they may lack the bells and whistles ...

The mechanical watch as a legitimate tool — a diver’s underwater timing mechanism, a doctor’s pulsometer, a driver’s tachymeter — is a subject we cover often. But there’s a common and pressing ...

I’m a watch fan but I’m mostly ignorant of how progress was made from, say, the Antikythera mechanism to TokyoFlash. As one might expect, there are a ton of one-offs, ingenious ideas, and mechanical ...

A mechanical watch is a watch that uses the power of the unwinding of a wound mainspring as its power source, and while many relatively inexpensive watches are quartz-powered, mechanical watches are ...

A mechanical watch that plays the time like a music box may seem like a gimmick inspired by your smartphone, but the minute repeater is actually a centuries-old complication that once put the ...

Your phone and appliances keep perfect time, but Rolex and other luxury brands trust that buyers will desire precision-focused mechanical models. By Victoria Gomelsky Sixty years ago, before the ...

A YouTuber has made the Apple Watch less smart, converting a Series 1 model into a fully-operational mechanical watch, complete with physical hands that are reminiscent of a classic watchOS face ...

Most of the smartwatches on the market today are digital with some sort of display rather than an actual watchface. That's not what the Origin mechanical watch is though. This is an old-school looking ...

Of the 12 categories in the Grand Prix D’Horlogerie de Genève – the Academy Awards of luxury watches – the most interesting in my view is the Ladies’ High-Mech. In recent years, high complications ...

Smartwatches and fitness trackers have dominated the timepiece market for a few years, but recently, there has been a revived interest in mechanical watches. While they may lack the bells and whistles ...