It's all in the seconds hand.

Quartz watches were invented by Seiko in 1969 and almost brought about the death of mechanical watches in the Seventies, thanks to their cheap means of manufacture. Quartz movements have a battery and ...

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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 ...

We love Timex’s Q series for several reasons. First and foremost, in a world where noses are often turned up at quartz watches in favor of expensive and antiquated mechanical technology, the Q is all ...

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 ...

Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire's weekly column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world. Quartz watches are a polarizing force in watch collecting. Some ...

There are currently four vintage watches on my bedside table: a Seiko 5 from the ’80s that, god bless it, runs pretty damn well for a $25 mechanical watch; a ‘70s Orient King Diver that, when wound, ...

It may sound like some sort of horological joke, but a quartz timepiece was just snapped up for more than half a million dollars at auction. This specific Élégante was designed by François-Paul Journe ...

Christmas Day 1969: Richard Nixon is in power; the second manned Moon mission has just returned to Earth; and The Beatles are at number one in the albums chart with Abbey Road. Over in Tokyo, another ...

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 ...

Originally published by Joe Thompson on Hodinkee. The first salvo of the quartz watch revolution was fired in the last week of the 1960s. On December 25, in Tokyo, Seiko introduced the Astron, the ...