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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wise man once wrote that watch owners always have two questions in mind about their watches: is it worth it; and, is it a good watch? He went on to say that the answer to the first question is ...

Omega, says it has solved a longstanding limitation in watch certification, unveiling a Constellation model that becomes the first two-hand watch to earn Master Chronometer status by replacing ...

We wear watches to know the time… don’t we? Given that I, and many other collectors I know, have strapped a watch on in the morning and only later that afternoon realised the watch has been neither ...

China's watchmaking industry reached a milestone recently when it got a watch movement certified as a "chronometer". [Photo/VCG] China's watchmaking industry reached a milestone recently when it got a ...