Timex has announced the Waterbury Heritage America 250, a new watch marking the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United ...
Anyone who’s been paying attention to the watch world over the past handful of years knows that Timex has been on quite the hot streak. It started back in 2017, when the budget brand relaunched the ...
Seiko revived its 1980s Astronaut A829 model as the “Rotocall” digital watch The watch’s bi-directional bezel selects between eight functions for ease of use It’s powered by a quartz movement and is ...
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 ...
Too often, quartz is disregarded as a cheap, passionless way to tell time. While mechanical watches are put on a pedestal as complicated high art (and to be fair, in many cases they are), quartz is ...
For as long as watches have been made, precision timekeeping has been the ultimate goal. Watchmakers have invented all manner of methods for counteracting gravity, magnetism, shock, and temperature ...
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 ...
This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. Sign up here. It’s Hot Take Month here on Box + Papers, with a new guest writer dropping by ...