Want to simplify your search for a nice watch? Look for the quality assurance of a “Swiss Made” label or a watch with a Swiss-made movement. But with such a broad and potentially technical topic, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The watch industry has undergone gradual but important change over its centuries-long history, and a big part of that change has to do with the thing that makes your timepiece tick. For many decades — ...

From the ubiquitous 4R36 to the cutting-edge Grad Seiko Spring Drive, Seiko has led the way in affordable reliability and advancing timekeeping precision. Seiko is one of the most beloved watch brands ...

For 2015, Swiss Tudor watches surprised the luxury timepiece industry with the announcement that it will now be producing its own watch movements - and presented both a new timepiece, as well as an ...

"Oh, your watch is beautiful! Is it...?" "Atomic," you'll be able to say very soon, if you have a huge amount of money and don't mind wearing radioactive matter about your well-tailored person.

Zenith has re-engineered the mechanical watch movement by inventing a new single-piece oscillator that replaces the traditional hairspring/balance wheel assembly. It oscillates at a frequency ...

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 ...