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 ...

Automatic movements – equipped with a self winding system that includes an oscillating weight powered by the movements of the wearer – are the most convenient option for everyday watches. Yet women’s ...

It’s hard to beat the allure of actual military-issued watches, and those made for Britain’s armed forces are legendary. The CWC G10 was among them, and it has the distinction of being the first watch ...

The ’80s is often considered a Dark Age of watchmaking as cheap quartz watches undercut historic brands — and people around the world made questionable fashion decisions. But don’t discount the decade ...

Seiko exponentially improves the accuracy of its Spring Drive movement, now measured in seconds per year, rather than month.

Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like "tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...