Sinclair Harding, one of the finest contemporary clockmakers in Britain, if not the world, has recreated a perfect life-size ...

We go hands-on with the new Brellum Pandial Power Reserve Black Titanium LE Chronometer ✓ A stealthy titanium chronograph ✓ ...

Accuracy probably doesn’t play too big of a role in most peoples’ watch purchases, and while practically speaking there’s not much reason to own something hyper-accurate, there’s an ineffable coolness ...

Rolex releases an authorized 244-page history of the Oyster Perpetual Datejust written by Nicholas Foulkes and published ...

Let’s get one thing out of the way: a chronometer is different than a chronograph, though one can also be the other. We’ve heard the terms confused one too many times, and while we’ll forgive past ...

To mark the 60th anniversary of its first great technological breakthrough, Century unveils Mastersphere, a rebirth of the ...

The OMEGA Seamaster Planet Ocean line enters an exciting new chapter with the launch of its fourth generation, a complete ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. If it's troublesome and annoyingly expensive, I'm all over it. A wise man once wrote that watch owners always have two questions ...

Modern-day watch buyers take precision for granted, but 240 years ago, when the British watchmaker John Arnold unveiled his seminal Chronometer No. 1/36, accuracy in a timekeeping instrument was, at ...

In the days before GPS, the accuracy of a ship’s chronometer might be a matter of life and death. Navigators used them to determine longitude by measuring the local time via a sextant and a star map, ...

Dead reckoning” is one of the most common terms uttered by swashbuckling captains in pirate movies. In the early 1700s, it meant using primitive tools like the astrolabe and compass to chart a course ...